Reddit reviews Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
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Catching them is also ruining the ocean. Before Julia Child came out with a popular monkfish recipe they were regarded as pretty much a garbage fish. Now they became a trendy fish to eat but catching them requires basically trolling giant, heavy nets on the bottom of the ocean that completely ruin many miles of ocean floor in just one run. It's basically an ocean bulldozer to catch a few ugly fish. Read more in Bottom Feeder, it's a pretty shameful practice.
Wild fish: Some fishing stocks are in danger of overfishing, others aren't. For example, the wild Pacific salmon population is OK but Atlantic is overfished to the verge of collapse.
Aquaculture: Yes, our practices are often better. Standard practice in some places pumps the seafood full of unnecessary antibiotics, contaminating the water, your food, and endangering the health of the workers on the fish farms.
For more about all this you should check out a book called Bottomfeeder, by Taras Grescoe. It's shocking; probably the most important book I've read in the last 10 years.
http://www.amazon.com/Bottomfeeder-Ethically-World-Vanishing-Seafood/dp/1596912251
They're probably getting fish by-product meal and/or flax seeds.
Salmon is one of those fish that suffers from over-fishing and was traditionally only a seasonal food. But at present, fish farms have a lot in common with CAFOs; see Bottomfeeder.
Side note and maybe this is just me, but texture of farmed salmon is totally different too - it's like jello interlaced with fish fat.
You should read Bottom Feeder by Taras Grescoe, it's quite interesting, if a little preachy.