"James Silverton" <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote in message
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> Hello, Dan!
> You wrote on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:31:15 -0500:
>
> DL> Musashi wrote:
> ??>>
> ??>> We have several large reservoirs about an hour north of
> ??>> where I live. Last Saturday I caught a 5 pound Brown
> ??>> Trout. My biggest actually. Beautiful pink flesh, very
> ??>> similar to Atlantic Salmon. But you're right, no sushi or
> ??>> sashimi.
>
> DL> I fished the lake only 4 times that year, so all from the
> DL> same location. The last time I went, I sat next to a guy
> DL> and his wife. He has already caught a rainbow trout and
> DL> gave it to me since he had 17 at home. I felt pretty bad
> DL> that I couldn't even get a hit.. but I probably didn't give
> DL> it enough effort.
>
> DL> The one trout was very tasty grilled.
>
> It's hardly a sushi story but Trader Joe's has some of the best
> frozen fish around. However, I was intrigued to see that some
> "Atlantic Salmon" was "imported from Chile" which hardly has an
> Atlantic coast. The company maintains that Atlantic Salmon is
> just a name which is not really true since the Atlantic salmon
> is Salmo salar and does not occur naturally in the Pacific. It
> is just possible that the Chileans are farming Atlantic salmon
> but the practice is deprecated since some farmed salmon
> invariably escape and they might displace the Oncorhynchus
> species of the Pacific.
>

Yes, Chile is quite active in salmon and trout farming. I've seen farmed
Chilean salmon even in Japan.
Atlantic salmon farming is usually brings to mind Norway, Sweden, Scotland,
Canada and Maine US. But they are also farmed on the Pacific coast as well.
Actually I think they've been farmed long enough on the West Coast that a
few
probably have escaped but I doubt the numbers would be sufficient to worry
about displacing the numerous Pacific species.
M