Very good point about farm raised salmon they have holding pens in the ocean these fish carry diseases then pass them on to wild fish that get anywhere close to them , then those fish bring the disease to the hatcheries and well you get the point, I firmly believe the days of commercial fishing for salmon must be ended! if you want a wild fish go catch it otherwise buy farm raised, and all farms must be inland away from oceans NO contact with the ocean should be allowed when farming anything seafood related.
here is Idaho we release 10 million smolts a year yes ten MILLION... we get back about 1percent if we are lucky Dams, birds, over populated sea lions and seals, all take their toll on the smolts as well as natural deaths but the young fish are never as strong as their wild brothers and there for have less chance of making it to the ocean. then after two years they come back to their parent waters only to have commercial netters have the first crack at them now this is tax payers dollars giving them a job and robbing the sport dollars from the public which is about 300 times what commercial fisherman spent that goes back to the public... you do the math but keep that farm raised crap away from the ocean.
I feel the same about game farming ,deer and elk some escape and then fuk up the wild genetics or pass on diseases... shut all that fake crap down!