Farmed vs wild: the controversy continues

TARAS GRESCOE
April 26, 2008
Globe and Mail

ECHO BAY, B.C. -- Ye ugly, creepan, blastit

wonner,/ Detested, shunn'd,

by saunt an' sinner,/

How daur ye set your fit upon her,/ Sae fine a Lady!

- From the Robert Burns poem, To A Louse, On Seeing One On A Lady's Bonnet, At Church

For anybody who relishes the unctuous feel of lox on bagel, the crunch of crispy salmon skin in a B.C. roll, or the odour of a Chinook tail on the barbecue, these can be confusing times.

Wild salmon are virtually extinct in the Atlantic Ocean, yet tens of millions of Atlantic salmon are being raised in farms in the Pacific; the U.S.-based Safeway supermarket chain has announced that it is curtailing purchases of disease-ridden farmed salmon from Chile; and returns of wild salmon on the British Columbia coast seem to be declining from year to year.

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