What are the advantages of wild caught salmon over farm-raised (if any)?

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Is that due to overfishing or other things such as loss of habitat by obstructing their spawning routes?

ETA: It looks like populations in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest are healthy. Their habitats are protected too. https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/where-are-salmon-most-endangered

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Both? The salmon along shipping routes or around them seems to be most at risk but it is also the most accessible https://www.asf.ca/about-atlantic-salmon/state-of-populations The northern salmon populations are healthiest but they are also furthest from population centers. In general, there is still too much atlantic salmon fishing. Canada is still assessing long term strategies for salmon population protection. Edit: we do have quotas/limits on salmon fishing already

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Looks like this might be a US vs Canada thing.

I wasn’t aware there was such a thing as wiild caught Atlantic Salmon because in the US

All Atlantic salmon in the public market is cultured and commercially grown.

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/atlantic-salmon-protected#:~:text=All Atlantic salmon in the,a few rivers in Maine.

You are still correct in saying that wild caught can be problematic as well.

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