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The meat looks significantly different when comparing wild pacific to atlantic.

But yes, shady fish distributors have been caught selling cheaper fish as the more expensive.

For me Atlantic vs Sockeye or Copper River Salmon. Atlantic is usually a faded pink orange color. It’s more like Arctic Char. Pacific Sockeye is extremely red.

Another fact, the only native Trout species in my state, Georgia, is Brook trout. They are actually closer to Arctic Char than trout or salmon.

Unless you caught it yourself, color is a particularly bad way to determine the kind of salmon you’re looking at; Fish farms feed their fish a steady diet of red dye to colorize their flesh: https://qz.com/358811/heres-why-your-farmed-salmon-has-color...

oh man, this just ruined my day. You can normally see the difference immediately by color between farm and wild raised.

At least they have to label it as color added now...

I trust some of the places I get my fish. Certainly not the big chains.

Copper River salmon isn't a species, it's acrually multiple kinds of pacific salmon with extra marketing and branding.

Kings, sockeyes and cohos. It's all caught in Prince William Sound near the mouth of the Copper River. I grew up fishing there. There is a lot of marketing, but I think it tastes way better than farmed or Atlantic salmon and just can't bring myself to eat that.

Not saying it isn’t good marketing. I can see a visible difference between Copper River salmon and salmon of the same species from somewhere else.

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