What is the difference between pink fresh Alaska salmon, pink wild Alaska salmon, and red sockeye wild Alaska salmon?
I live in Alaska, & since I think I know everything, let me help you out. 1st: Salmon lessons. There are 5 kinds of salmon, according to President Bush, 6; he has decided Steelhead Trout is now a Salmon. I’ll explain that some other time. Different salmon tastes good for different things- if you eat a lot of it, you’ll have preferences. FRESH Pink Alaska Salmon & WILD Pink Alaska Salmon are the SAME thing. Pink is also known as Humpy, because of the hump it develops on it’s back after entering fresh water to go upstream to spawn. ~ IF YOU LIVE DOWN SOUTH- LOWER 48- BE CAREFUL.~ Restaurants & stores will lie to you- very few of them don’t know & are also lied to- about Salmon. They save $$$ by selling FARMED Salmon (which is not as good) & passing it off as WILD Alaskan. SALMON FARMING IS ILLEGAL IN ALASKA, therefore ALL Alaskan Salmon will be WILD.
I live in Alaska, & since I think I know everything, let me help you out. 1st: Salmon lessons. There are 5 kinds of salmon, according to President Bush, 6; he has decided Steelhead Trout is now a Salmon. I’ll explain that some other time. Different salmon tastes good for different things- if you eat a lot of it, you’ll have preferences. FRESH Pink Alaska Salmon & WILD Pink Alaska Salmon are the SAME thing. Pink is also known as Humpy, because of the hump it develops on it’s back after entering fresh water to go upstream to spawn. ~ IF YOU LIVE DOWN SOUTH- LOWER 48- BE CAREFUL.~ Restaurants & stores will lie to you- very few of them don’t know & are also lied to- about Salmon. They save $$$ by selling FARMED Salmon (which is not as good) & passing it off as WILD Alaskan. SALMON FARMING IS ILLEGAL IN ALASKA, therefore ALL Alaskan Salmon will be WILD. But- notice the wording here: If a store [or a restaurant] tells you it is FRESH ALASKAN pink- ASK them if it is WILD, and if it is from Al
