The differences between ‘farmed’, ‘organically farmed’ and ‘wild’ salmon may be unclear to shoppers while imports from Scotland, Norway and the Faroe Islands can be labelled as Irish
When buying or eating salmon, the question “is it farmed or wild?” is frequently asked. But the days are long gone when wild salmon was widely available in Irish fish shops, on supermarket shelves or restaurant menus.
The presence of farmed salmon imported from Scotland, Norway or the Faroe Islands, however, is increasingly evident – though it might be labelled as Irish on the basis of being processed or smoked here. A farmed salmon caught on the Dawros river in Connemara in August, which is believed to have come from Killary harbour, where a large number of fish escaped from a salmon farmYes, to a limited extent. Drift-netting of wild fish deployed out to sea was banned in Ireland in 2007 due to huge declines in salmon numbers returning to their rivers of origin. Drift-netting is permitted from June to July every year in some rivers and estuaries, but the numbers caught are relatively small.
The reality may be a little different, however, as use of artificial colourants, toxic pesticides and some feeds have attracted criticism. Salmon feed involves enormous volumes of ingredients, such as krill or sprat, which may lead to problems in the food chain for wild salmon and other fish.
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