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FYI it’s “dramatically improved” not “drastically improved”. Drastically has the connotation of something bad happening so it doesn’t make sense to drastically improve something, it’s like saying “horribly benefited”.

Points 2 and 3 kind of contradict themselves though, as China doesn't have access to deep sea (at least until the invasion of Taiwan or if China manage to take control of their claimed share of South China Sea).

I suppose natural selection will act on those salmon that can't reproduce.

That is... unintuitive. Wouldn't the escaped salmon have to be able to get back upstream enough to where the wild salmon are laying/milting?

Don’t forget the dams and the humpback salmon.

I'm trying to recall right now, and maybe the only places where I didn't find salmon in any of my visits was in the more expensive/ fine dinning places (think ¥8000+ places). All the common kaiten sushi places, or chains like SushiZanmai have all kinds of salmon pieces. Different levels of fat, broiled, rolls...

Is it maybe a bit more like "comfort food", for kids, for less delicate palates, cheaper? Maybe. But truth is I haven't asked why I haven't seen it in the expensive places.

It's hard to say, depending on how far back your idea of "a few years ago" might be or where exactly you ate. After all, Japan has a lot of sushi restaurants and even different sushi styles. For example, you definitely wouldn't find salmon in an edomae sushi restaurant.

For reference, salmon was the most popular choice in conveyor belt sushi places 3 years ago. https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01627/

> A hamburger probably has a better nutritional value than farmed salmon.

Why would you think that? Ground beef typically has higher saturated fat than even farmed salmon and a lot less omega-3.

A hamburger adds a refined carbohydrate bun and sauces on top of that.

I think your political beliefs are overriding factual accuracy.

> And the color is fake, if they do not add coloring to the food, farmed salmon would be gray.

The color isn’t “fake”. It comes from Asataxanthin. Wild fish get it from food they eat. Farmed fish might get it from microalgae-derived sources. Why would it be “fake” if it’s the same chemical? They’re just feeding the farmed salmon the nutrients they need.

Astaxanthin is also sold separately as a supplement because people seek it out, too. It’s not some evil fake chemical dye. The wild salmon naturally eat it, too.

> A hamburger probably has a better nutritional value than farmed salmon.

A sensational statement that is utterly false.

Per 100g, Norwegian farmed salmon has 0.1x the sodium, 0.5x the saturated fat, 2x the protein, 20x the Omega-3 fatty acids and infinity-x the vitamin D of your hamburger.

Farmed salmon is a minimally processed single-ingredient protein, while your hamburger is ultra-processed and packed with refined carbs, added sugar and high-fructose corn syrup and chemicals synthesized in a lab.

> Children and pregnant women should also limit the intake because it can disrupt development.

Presumably you're talking about growth hormones?

Because that American fast-food hamburger has plenty of growth hormones.

Under Norwegian law and European Union/EEA regulations, the use of growth hormones in fish farming is strictly illegal.

On land we abandoned the hunter/gatherer system for farming thousands of years ago.

Because it just doesn't scale! It can feed 50-100 million people at most.

Maybe we need to empty the oceans of wild fish before we make that transition for seafood, but I hope it can happen a bit more quickly.

Astaxanthin for the color fair. What about the salmon is bad for pregnant women?

Maybe they are painting the fish and find the experience unenjoyable? :)

Perhaps a happy accident.

No. Sometimes the spill checker just auto co-wrecks people.

I'm sure you've never made a typo or mixed up two similar words before.

I'm a native English speaker and before your comment, I never noticed that palette, pallet, and palate are different words!

Is it though - I feel like the north star is on land farming. So many benefits. Offshore farming will exacerbate farmed salmon escaping and polluting wild salmon + parasites etc (land farmed salmon can generally be eaten raw or under cooked without being frozen without any worries)

Technically it works. Superior Fresh, as in the linked article, has a viable system. The challenge is that in the beginning it is hard to reach a scale that works economically. Added to that, in Norway it is challenging to grow leafy greens in greenhouses in the winter, compared to the latitude where Superior Fresh is located. It can be done, but is energy intensive. We ran a fully indoor pilot facility for five years in Sweden, it is still operational, under a new team. My ambition is to document what we learned in a CC licensed book. At the moment it is partially documented in a blog. https://cirkularodling.se/build-an-aquaponic-indoor-farm-par...

We don’t eat wild cows anymore because aurochs went extinct in the last few hundred years.

People still eat junglefowl (ancestor of chickens) and wild boar (pig), but in the developed world domesticated animals are usually both cheaper and tastier.