Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute’s ‘Wild’ Comment

True to this blogs mandate, we’ve uncovered another lovely quote, this time compliments of the spin doctors at the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.

“No shortage of Wild Salmon in Alaska” (April 22, 2008)

We really hate to ruin their party up there in Kodiak country, but we think that beauty of a quote deserves a little more information:

1. The term ‘wild’ is false – up to 50% of ‘wild’ salmon in Alaska have been hatched in a plastic tray, fed pellets and then released from captivity to mix with real naturally wild salmon.
2. Of course there’s plenty of salmon in Alaska – Alaska releases about two billion (yeah, billion-not to be confused with the word million) cultured salmon into Pacific waters every year. By cultured, we mean hatchery raised, pellet fed, vaccinated little salmon.  Heck, they probably have names!  

It’s just as well the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute has an annual budget of 50 million dollars – this might help fight a few lawsuits being filed for false advertising.

To read the full press release, click here.