Many people consume farm-raise fish because they wish to avoid the chemical pollutants that are in our oceans and our lakes. However, farm-raised fish is, surprisingly, not healthful. There are a couple of reasons for that. First of all, those fish are not given the feed that they’d get in their natural habitat, like the sea vegetables. And, therefore, the fatty acid profile of these fish is totally different from the fish in the wild.
Omega-3 fatty acids are found in cold-water fish, Alaskan halibut, salmon, sable fish, butter fish, even sardines have them. Farm-raised salmon only has about half the omega-3 as wild Alaskan salmon. If you see sockeye salmon, you know that you’re getting wild salmon, because they haven’t figured out how to farm raise it yet…