Something fishy (and farmy) going on here…

Have you ever said you won’t do something…but you do it regardless? Some refer to this as lying while others may call it “misrepresentation”. 

Apparently, a whole State called Alaska (that’s the cold one) has forgotten to practice what they preach. Here’s a typical quote from the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute:

“Alaska salmon are wild; there are no salmon farms in Alaska. In order to protect Alaska’s wild fisheries from potential problems, salmon farming was prohibited by the Alaskan legislature in 1990 (Alaska Statute 16.40.210)”   http://www.goldseal.ca/wildsalmon/alaska_salmon.asp

Here’s our response;

Salmon farm in Prince William Sound, Alaska.

So, that’s one hell of a Statute they have in Alaska. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist (or even a kindergarten graduate) to know that this is clearly a fish farm in Alaska. The fact that there is a salmon farm in Prince William Sound, Alaska, isn’t the problem – it’s the plain old ‘misrepresentation’ (a.k.a “lying”) that is a concern.  

If you’ve had enough “misrepresentation” from the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, simply copy the URL address above and send to Laura Fleming, Communications Director for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute at lfleming@alaskaseafood.org