Grilled salmon?
I finally got onto grilled salmon this week. Pure greatness. The question is this: I was shopping the other night and noticed "atlantic" salmon, and "steelhead" salmon. I know the difference between the two fish. The steelhead is noticeably less expensive than the atlantic. What is the difference in the taste? Both times i've grilled salmon, i've used atlantic, and loved it. Thoughts?
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I cant answer that question but you are staying away from the farm raised stuff, right? -
I don't really like the flavor of any salmon but it is extremely healthy so I incorporate it into my diet. It all tastes fishy to me.Comment
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School me. I didn't look to see if it was farmed raised, etc.Originally posted by rtp View PostComment
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It will always be much cheaper than the wild caught salmon. They add the color to make it red like the wild fish, it is fed man made foods its entire life, etc. All fish should be labeled wild caught or farm raised if you are buying it in a grocery store.Originally posted by mikemorvan View PostLast edited by rtp; 03-27-2014, 08:48 AM.Comment
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I think "Atlantic" is farm raised. King is the best as it has the highest oil content, they market it as Copper River salmon.
Pink salmon is literally dog food. Low oil and nasty...the meat will be almost white when cooked. They regurgitate in the boat and let it all out on the other end also. Some people won't even allow pinks in the boat, they are left for dip netters.
Grill with some brown sugar mixed with BBQ sauce, or brown sugar as your base and put anything else with it.
I usually don't order salmon because it usually is Atlantic and can't compare with King, surprisingly Longhorn does serve some excellent dishes. Not sure which they are serving, but I doubt it is King.Comment
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Wild caught is a lot better than farm raised. Farm raised tends to have more toxins, diseases, antibiotics, dyes, and contains more fat than wild caught, which contains more Omega-3's and protien.Comment
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Wild populations of Atlantic salmon have been pretty seriously depleted. I've never seen wild Atlantic salmon offered for sale; all have been farm raised. I prefer the wild caught Alaskan varieties.Comment
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Farm-raised fish is generally less healthy for you than wild-caught. The proteins in the fish are less healthy than wild caught because the farm raised are fed more corn and soy proteins than the wild animal proteins wild-caught fish usually eat. Many types of farm-raised fish (like tilapia) are actually fed the waste products of other fish as their main food source. Smaller fish farms tend to produce fish with higher levels of foodbourne illnesses because of poor sanitary conditions.
Additionally, farm-raised salmon generally have higher levels of PCBs and other toxins than wild caught and are given more antibiotics per pound than any other type of livestock.
Even in farms that feed fish rather than feed, it takes about 5 lbs of wild fish to generate 1 lb of farm-raised salmon. Why not just eat 1 lb of the wild fish?Comment
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Steelhead are actually a smaller fish in size compared to a salmon. Steelhead don't necessarily go to the ocean to be a steelhead. I believe steelhead also when they go to the ocean they come back every year and never die. Salmon take 4-5 years before they come back to the rivers and they do die. Not sure if that's what you were wondering but it's a little example .Comment
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Good info. Thanks to all.Comment
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Just remember...
High fence salmon is not as good as free range.Comment
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Steelhead are essentially coastal rainbow trout that migrate out of fresh water, into salt water, and return to spawn over the course of their lives. They can spawn 5 or 6 times, moving from salt to fresh, returning to salt. They may live at sea for several years before returning to their native stream, birth place, to spawn and then turn and swim back out into the open ocean again for another round of living in salt water. Those that opt to stay in the rivers and not leave, are simply rainbow trout, and never leave the stream.
Atlantic salmon are all farm raised fish. It's illegal to commercial fish and or sell wild Atlantic fish products here in the USA. The majority of the Atlantic salmon farms are in Washington State, Maine, Canada, Peru and Ireland.
Steelhead are commercially fished for market. Pacific Salmon are commercially fished for market.
I lived in Washington State for 4 years and a local Atlantic salmon farm was part of my daily life along the shore of the Western Puget sound. These fish live in large netted holding tanks and are fed with automatic fish feeders that go off like a deer feeder, at pre-determined times. During my time there, one of the holding tanks busted open and all of the Atlantic salmon swam free, bringing in Killer whales by the dozens. These fish, being farm raised, had no idea how to forage and feed for themselves so the Orcas simply followed the school eating them by the thousands as the other that survived, slowly died of starvation and or somehow figured out how to forage.
Pink salmon - humpbacks, are the most common salmon and their lives are only around 2 years long. Smoked, canned and mass produced for food but not served as filets. As mentioned, they are not the top salmon species for the table, and many of them are used in cat food and other products, that are salmon based without being prime tablefare.
Buy some cedar planks and learn to grill them on the half shell, skin side down on the plank, for a nice smokey bbq!
I've been fortunate to have spent a large percentage of my younger years living in Salmon country in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Dealing with fisheries enforcement stuff with the US Coast Guard, and Commercial fishing interests of our native stocks there, opened my eyes to the world of all forms of salmonids!
Rainbow trout, cut-throat trout, brooks and browns - all of them are part of the family, which includes the various sea form salmon & steelhead species.Comment
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