It may even be your favorite dish to order when you eat out. Many people think it’s a heathy choice when they buy it or order out, but that’s no longer true.
STORY AT-A-GLANCE Aquaculture promotes itself as a sustainable solution to overfishing, but it actually takes 1.5 to 8 kilograms (3.3 to 17.6 pounds) of wild fish to produce a single kilogram (2.2 pounds) of farmed salmon
Fish farms pollute the aquatic environment and spread disease to wild fish. Farmed fish are also an inferior food source, in part by providing fewer healthy nutrients; in part by containing more toxins
Research shows farmed salmon contain five times more toxins than any other food tested, including higher levels of PCBs and dioxin
Research also warns that farmed Atlantic salmon may contain PBDEs, toxic flame retardant chemicals that have been restricted or banned in the U.S. and many European countries due to their effects on child development
Toxins in the fish feed and environmental concentrations of the chemicals have been identified as the two primary culprits Fish are an important part of the ecosystem and the human diet. Unfortunately, overfishing has depleted many fish stocks, and the proposed solution — fish farming — is creating far more problems than it solves. Not only are fish farms polluting the aquatic environment and spreading disease to wild fish, farmed fish are also an inferior food source, in part by providing fewer healthy nutrients; and in part by containing more toxins, which readily accumulate in fat….