Being in open water with sharks would **** me right up. I used to love watching this show 'Survivorman' with Les Stroud, a canadian wilderness/survival expert. Out of all the episodes he did, the craziest one to me was when he stranded himself out in the ocean on a plastic inflatable, doing his own camera work.
Exactly, from the shrimp like crustaceans they eat. They feed the salmon the same mix but there are probably other ingredients involved, not sure.
In my modest experience? Everything in the ocean has teeth, stingers, poison, claws, pinchers, suckers, sonar, smokescreens, stealth, size, and/or all of the above! Oh, they are all hungry as hell...
I think that BC might still have a commercial salmon fishery. Maybe some of our posters from the west coast an chime in. I don’t think that there is anything other than sport fishing here in Atlantic Canada. Everything in our grocery stores says farm salmon right on the packaging.
I knew a cook on a commercial trawler based in Port Renfrew, but they fished outside territorial waters. Not sure what they were after, tuna maybe. I think there's a lot of small scale fishermen with commercial licenses all round Vancouver Island. I don't know what they catch and for whom, but it must be good cause there's a lot of them.
Did a jumping croc tour on the Adelaide River near Darwin a few years back, we were in a double decker boat so totally safe (unless it sinks...) but there were some idiots out there in little tinnies about a foot off the water, insane when these one tonne saltwater crocs are going up 6+ feet in the air
The taste of the fish is also much different than anything that I have ever tasted from the wild.
I’ll take a salmon that swims freely in the Atlantic any day over one that swims around in a crowded enclosure. I do realize that food has to be mass produced to meet demand so it is what it is.
That and the overuse of anti-biotics.
