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How can you tell if salmon is farmed or wild salmon?

Asked: The Amateur Sportsman, Last Updated:

Farmed salmon is lighter and more pink, while wild has a deeper reddish-orange hue. Farmed fish will also a lot more fatty marbling in its flesh—those wavy white lines—since they aren't fighting against upstream currents like wild ones.

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