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Salmon

Wild Prices for Wild Salmon

Consumer appetite for salmon is booming at a time when the supply is about to dry up. With an impending year-long fishing ban in place, prices for wild salmon -- that is, salmon caught in the ocean off California and Oregon -- are expected to skyrocket. What are the alternatives for shoppers?
David Gorn

http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/quest/2008/03/2008-03-28-quest.mp3

The expected shutdown of this year's salmon season in California is bad news not only for fishermen but for consumers too. It means that anyone buying wild salmon this year is going to pay some wild prices. There is another choice, of course, cheaper, farmed salmon. But that prospect has some consumers cringing… and it has some fish farmers thinking of new ways to please wild salmon fans.

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