"limey" > wrote in message
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> "Charles Gifford" wrote in message >
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>> "aem" wrote in message
>> >> But that farm-raised stuff is bad news.
>>> Even if they claim to have stopped using antibiotics and hormones, the
>>> fish is kept penned where the water is shallow and warmer, resulting in
>>> mushy flesh from lack of enough exercise and less flavor from less fat.
>>> They add coloring to the food near the end of the growing cycle, for
>>> chissakes, to make it look better!
>>>
>>> -aem
>>
>> You got that right! I love wild Atlantic salmon. The farmed stuff isn't
>> even
>> close. It is nasty.
>>
>> Charlie
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> I know, I know. (sigh) - but what to do when the farm-raised is the only
> game in town and you have a hankering for salmon? I agree it's bland and
> mushy. As I see it, I need to move to the West coast, preferably in the
> Seattle area - or to Alaska, where I can catch my own. Confound my
> neighbour, who went from Maryland to Alaska in order to go salmon fishing
> and gave me my longing for the "real thing" ;-( I *never* see it in
> the markets here, but then I'm in the boonies.

Dora.. what is a boonie?