Myself, I’d rather eat wild cod once a month and sardines once a week than farm-raised salmon, ever.

-Mark Bittman

Contains a shout out to Alaskan Sockeye Salmon.
Great timing, topical, and a conversation starter with Seattle Marine Fish Expo and the Seattle "Red Gold" film premiere this week.

--John Foss

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A Seafood Snob Ponders the Future of Fish
By MARK BITTMAN
NEW YORK TIMES
Published: November 15, 2008

"Not to mention that its products generally don’t taste so good, at least compared to the wild stuff. Farm-raised tilapia, with the best feed-to-flesh conversion ratio of any animal, is less desirable to many consumers, myself included, than that nearly perfectly blank canvas called tofu. It seems unlikely that farm-raised striped bass will ever taste remotely like its fierce, graceful progenitor, or that anyone who’s had fresh Alaskan sockeye can take farmed salmon seriously."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/weekinreview/16bittman.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&ref=weekinreview&pagewanted=all