I'll start off by saying that farmed raised Atlantic is horrible. Wild Atlantic is next worst. I have to say that wild sockeye is tops...never had it fresh though. Although not Salmon, but related, I love Steelhead (even farmed).

What about you all?

Fresh Copper River.

Copper river that **** is da bomb. I mean like Ben aflec in phantoms.

Yea *****, Phantoms like a mother ****er.

1- Sockeye/Red, (Copper River apparently being a popular supermarket source)
2- Coho/Silver
3- King/Chinook
4- wild Atlantic
5- farmed Atlantic
6- Pink/Humpy
7- Dog/Chum

Stay away from any farm raised fish. period.

Exactly. I avoid all farm raised seafood.

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Stay away from any farm raised fish. period.

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The exception to this is farm raised catfish. it consistently gets high marks from Seafood Watch.

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The exception to this is farm raised catfish. it consistently gets high marks from Seafood Watch.

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and shellfish. Mussels and oysters are mostly farmed and get good ratings. Farmed clams rate OK. Domestic shrimp farms are ok at seafood watch. A lot of the overseas ones are environmentally bad.

farmed catfish IMHO are very subpar. Nothing like wild caught river catfish. You aren't going to get that in any market though.

River catfish taste like crap. Give me the flaky mild white fleshed farm raised stuff

Sockeye.

king


Coho

Copper River

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River catfish taste like crap. Give me the flaky mild white fleshed farm raised stuff

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If you eat the nasty yellow part of the meat they do. I always cut that off and have no issue.

Some rivers are nasty polluted, and that will have an effect on the taste. Trinity BELOW the dam is a good one to avoid IMO.

and Yellow cat FTMFW!!!!

Whats wrong with farmed fish?

Some farmed fish lives in water that is more contaminated with waste that is worse than a native habitat. In the US, this isn't a problem. In Asia; however, it's a big problem.
Some farmed fish is fine from a sustainability standpoint, but lacks the flavor of wild stock. Regardless, I tend to stick with what Seafood Watch says.

HEB had some really good looking Red Snapper today. It had one of those Gulf Wild tags in it, and I wish I had remembered to search the tag number.

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Whats wrong with farmed fish?

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Google it , but warning it is quite nasty, contaminated water, swimming in massive amounts of doo doo among other stuff

I preder Vietnamese farmed raised. It's full of parasites and antibiotics. Hard to beat that.

I just don't see much difference in the quality of conditions compared to any other production farms.

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Some farmed fish lives in water that is more contaminated with waste that is worse than a native habitat. In the US, this isn't a problem. In Asia; however, it's a big problem.
Some farmed fish is fine from a sustainability standpoint, but lacks the flavor of wild stock. Regardless, I tend to stick with what Seafood Watch says.

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IIRC, a lot of the problem is what the intensive feeding does to the surrounding areas more than what it does to the farmed fish themselves.

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Whats wrong with farmed fish?

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Google it , but warning it is quite nasty, contaminated water, swimming in massive amounts of doo doo among other stuff

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Not all farmed fish are created equal. As a society, we need to start farming more fish sustainably which is entirely possible, just more expensive. Don't write off all farmed fish, only going wild leads to overfishing and a depletion of the oceans which are already at crisis levels.

Unfortunately, if you are buying fish from your regular supermarket, the farmed raised stuff is probably garbage. It is worth it to find a local fishmonger or higher-end supermarket like Whole Foods who know where the fish is coming from.

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Some farmed fish lives in water that is more contaminated with waste that is worse than a native habitat. In the US, this isn't a problem. In Asia; however, it's a big problem.
Some farmed fish is fine from a sustainability standpoint, but lacks the flavor of wild stock. Regardless, I tend to stick with what Seafood Watch say

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Exactly! Seafood Watch is a great resource. They even have an app IIRC.
I don't think it is accurate to say that all wild fish have better flavor than all farmed fish but would definitely agree with you in regards to salmon. (Though, there is a great Scottish farmed salmon)

Don't know if anybody caught the PBS series "Earth, a New Wild" but the episode on "Oceans" was very interesting and they talked a lot about farming vs wild etc...