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Article: Wild salmon.(versus farmed-salmon)
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- Seafood Business
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Change is essential if the wild salmon industry is to survive the flood of inexpensive farmed product
How wild is the wild-salmon business these days? Consider this: This summer, there's a very good chance some Alaska processors will be paying more for pale chums than for bright sockeyes. But it's not the meat that matters. With a small Japanese chum run predicted this fall, the price of chum eggs has shot through the roof.
Then there are the threatened Columbia River kings. So far this year, more than 400,000 big, bright kings have stormed up the river, the biggest run since record-keeping started in 1938, right after the first salmon-killing dams were ...