How to fish for pink salmon?

How does the quality of salmon sold in boxes compare to salmon from a fish market?

• At my local store, I see wild alaskan salmon that's sold in shrink wrapped boxes that don't require refrigeration and have a shelf life of months. I'm curious if it compares favorably to farmed Atlantic salmon in terms of quality.

• Answer:

  The only freeze dried salmon I've seen are the cubes that I buy for my dog, so I'm not sure that's what they are. But if this boxed salmon is wild Alaskan salmon it's a hundred times better than the farmed kind which comprise 90% of the market here in the United States (80% worldwide). Instead of streaking through the ocean and leaping up rocky streams, farmed salmon spend three years circling in net-covered offshore pens and fattening up on pellets of salmon protein chow. They are vaccinated as fry against the diseases that run rampant through their pens, fed antibiotics to ward off infections and fed pesticides to shed bloodsucking sea lice. And for that rich pink hue they are given a steady diet of synthetic pigment. Without it, the flesh of these caged salmon would be an unappetizing, pale gray.