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NW40K: Yes, wild Alaskan salmon is tops - any of the 5 varieties.

Farmed salmon used to be great, too, but the big growers out of Norway and Chile (smaller production in Scotland & Iceland) have reduced the inclusion rate of fish oil in the feed such that there isn't as much EPA/DHA as there used to be 7+ years ago. Norway reductions have been greater than Chile even.

Some of the farmed salmon growers are fighting that trend. I think in Scotland - they are trying to focus on keeping a "high-end" farmed salmon available. But, if they aren't rewarded in the marketplace, they'll give way, too. Most consumers don't discriminate. It's like milk - to a consumer milk is milk: most don't distinguish between CAFO grown milk producing cows and grass & ranch raised.

Our food systems are a bit taxed at 7 billion people - its clear when looking at how the nutrient composition has broken down because we tend to focus on volume output and think everything is hunky-dorky (and it is if that is the only metric) - not the composition of that output. We avoid thinking about how much additional in terms of chemical input we need to sustain it as well. We are feeding more people than ever, but with what and at what cost...Stanford University has taken the lead on these studies - they have a Center on Food Security and the Environment - Dr. Rosamond L Naylor especially. The furor to find solutions died down after the international food shortages in 2008-9, so I'm not sure how much grant money is still going to fund efforts for new solutions.