boulanger wrote on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:51:43 -0600:


> "Nancy2" > wrote in message
> ...
> On Mar 24, 9:31 am, "Janet" > wrote:
>> James Silverton wrote:
> >> Hello All!
>>
> >> It happens in Ireland too, it seems.
>>
> >> Irish Independent, Tuesday March 24 2009
>>
> >> http://tinyurl.com/cb7wh7
>>
> >> "A BATCH of seafood from an exclusive fishmongers which was
> >> labelled as 'wild salmon' was found to be farmed under DNA tests, a
> >> court heard yesterday."
>>
>> The so-called "wild" Atlantic salmon that spawns in some
>> Maine rivers was restocked with farmed fish many decades ago.
>> (Possibly from Canadian stock....I no longer recall the
>> details.) While it is now "wild" --in terms of lifestyle,
>> anyway--I'd venture to guess that it would fail a DNA
>> test that attempted to distinguish it from some farmed stock.

> I always buy wild Alaskan or Pacific salmon. I don't think
> I've ever had Atlantic salmon.
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Smoked salmon from Ireland, Scotland and Norway is made from Atlantic
salmon, a different species from Pacific salmon. Whether it is "wild" or
farmed is sometimes unclear but it's usually expensive. Personally, my
favorite is alder smoked Pacific salmon and I believe the Indians
invented that.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not