Forum on Organic Aquaculture
We thought that this hotly-debated topic would benefit from a place on the web - a place to hear all sides of this important and quickly-expanding aspect of food provision.
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he Organic farmed salmon industry got somewhat of a (very) negative press coverage over the weekend with a lengthy article published Sunday (October 22nd) in the UK Sunday newspaper, The Observer’s Food Monthly section, entitled: “Why organic salmon is causing a nasty smell”.
Further than the salmon farming industry, it is the Soil Association’s standards which are also challenged. The author also took an “orange-fleshed wild Alaskan salmon fillet” to compare it with a “pallid pinkish grey, a bit like an old sticking plaster” Scottish organic salmon.
The article starts with the sentence: “What's the difference between organic farmed salmon and the much-demonised variety that's kept in cages, stuffed with colours and pesticides, doomed to swim in its own faeces and prematurely slaughtered? Surprisingly little.”
-> Read more in the organics' section of SeafoodIntelligence.com: http://www.seafoodintelligence.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=168
Click Here to read the full Observer article (22.10.2006): http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodmonthly/story/0,,1925040,00.html
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