Too expand a bit on WN1A's post-

I remember reading a few years back that the much touted Copper river Chinook had toxin levels much higher than most farmed salmon. The Copper levels were not much different than Puget Sound blackmouth. The reason of course is that the Copper have high fat levels and tend to be older (6 year old fish thus more time to accumulate those toxins).

Something to keep in mind that much of the "research" on the threats from farmed salmon has been funded by the Alaskan commercial interests.

Ione study placed the consumption of farmed salmon in the USA at about twice the level of wild salmon consumption. If the farmed salmon are eliminated how much of the potential wild salmon production should be dedicated to the commercial industry to supply the public with salmon for their diet to replace that lost from the elimination of farmed salmon?

The 300,000 Atlantic salmon lost in the Cyprus net pen is 1.5 times larger than the entire Puget Sound forecast of hatchery Chinook. Maybe if we eliminate those farmed salmon we can meet much of the public demand for salmon filets by allocating the resource dedicate to the recreational fishery to the commercial fishery.

Curt