Wild salmon are high in beneficial omega-3 fatty acids. These highly polyunsaturated fats prevent platelets in the blood from sticking to arterial walls as plaque. They lower LDL (bad cholesterol). Medical professionals, including Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Barry Sears (The Zone Diet), recommend eating wild salmon, which has more omega-3's than farmed salmon.
	Clean water equals clean fish. Alaska's waters are among the world's cleanest. Wild salmon swim free in their natural habitat. They eat only natural foods like shrimp, herring, and squid. At the bottom of their food chain are certain algae which produce beneficial omega 3 acids. Farm-raised fish, on the other hand, are raised in crowded pens that breed disease and parasites. Salmon farmers combat this threat with vaccines, antibiotics, pesticides, fungicides, algaecides and other chemicals. Farm-raised salmon are fed synthetic carotenoids to color their flesh. The most common dye used, canthazanthin, is suspected of causing vision damage. The EU restrcited its levels in 2003, but Chilean and North American farmed salmon still contain 4 times the level allowed in Europe.
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