SEATTLE, US —In the wake of recent months of low prices despite record catches and the news that genetically modified salmon achieved regulatory approval in the US, some Alaskan fishermen in attendance at Seattle’s Pacific Marine Expo didn’t have the nicest things to say about salmon farming.
In a meeting of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute’s (ASMI) salmon committee on Nov. 19, fishermen offered ideas to the decision makers at the state’s seafood marketing agency at how to sell more Alaskan salmon.
Squaring off directly against aquaculture and touting the benefits of wild-caught fish was on several attendees’ minds.
One fisherman received a flurry of applause when he suggested tongue-in-cheek that ASMI publications spell farmed salmon as “pharmed sammon” so that “when people look at it, they say ‘that’s not right’” [...]
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