[Starboard]

Wild salmon...It’s not cheap, but the flavor is incredible — sweet, silky, meaty — and the vermilion color is magnificent. But the flavor of farmed salmon doesn’t even compare. It’s like the difference between a free-range chicken and one that’s been factory raised. Wild salmon swims long distances, its color a result of a natural diet of krill, plankton and algae. Farmed salmon languishes in pens, and its pink color comes artificially.

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It's hard to read this without thinking of the socio-political implications of the benefits of freedom versus total government control over one's environment.

[Baynative]

Up here in the Pacific Northwest the battles political rage on. The Salmon runs are strong and the the tribes can fish all they want ...anytime of year.

There have been court battles over fish farming and the hippies have bumper stickers urging people not to eat farmed fish. They also support taking private property in order to protect streams, shoreline habitats, etc.

If fish farming is outlawed or regulated in ways we haven't seen, then courts will have precedents for tomato farming and all others. In the name of saving salmon we are tearing out renewable energy producing hydro electric dams and funding wind mill construction. But wind mills are killing migratory birds.

As is the case in most political areas, the real battle is something other than the topic in the news.