Personally, I strictly limit my purchases and consumption of any foodstuff from China.
I trust Korean products more than Chinese.
I have perceived differences in farmed salmon.
Sam's obtains its farmed salmon from either Chile or Norway. The Chilean product is not as rich as the Norwegian product and I don't purchase the Chilean product anymore.
It's sometimes hard to determine the origin of farmed salmon but if the product is not listed as wild then it is certainly farmed somewhere.-Dick

I eat salmon quite often but even when frozen it appears red and is neatly cut into fillets. My husband who is very frugal and never eats it brought home a bag of really cheap salmon - he paid $7 for it. I read the package and it said it was from China wild caught and that is how I got to these posts. What I basicaly got out of it was that there was no flavor and probably the fish was caught somewhere else and packaged in China and that there are No regulations in China. What I did see was that STPP was added so I started to research that and now I'm even more suspicious(STSodium Tripolyphosphate, Powder) - not sure why this was added.... ugghh!

I buy as little consumable stuff from China as possible based on a host of interlocking environmental/political/health reasons. If I recall correctly, the last few years gave is poisoned dry wall, toothpaste, and pet food with Chinese origins (to name just the ones I can recall at will), as well as horrific scandals in which domestic Chinese products (milk, etc.) were poisoned. Their systems seem so completely corrupt and unreliable that I simply have zero faith in Chinese product.
Lots of U.S. brand name foods, especially juices, actually come from China. The big brands will tell you that they exercise total quality control over them. I avoid them anyway.
That's just me, but there it is, FWIW.

We became salmon snobs after our first trip to Alaska. We were 'hooked'-pardon the pun. We went to fish processing plants and ordered king and sockeye salmon, ling cod, and halibut cheeks. It was expensive but was worth it. The packs were well sealed and we filled our freezer. By the end of the supply we were pretty sick of salmon and stopped ordering. We started buying the wild caught salmon filets at Trader Joes and it is ok. I think it is a tad mushy but my daughter will eat it. We will not buy farmed fish.

Here is a scary article on imported seafood
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-11/asian-seafood-raised-on-pig-feces-approved-for-u-s-consumers.html

That is scary. Knowing that the polllution laws and other kinds of laws are so lax in some of these countries I am loathe to eat any seafood from there.

If I am going to eat salmon, I will go to Whole Foods or another fish market and buy Alaskan salmon that is fresh. Or order it out in a restaurant that serves good fish. I am wondering about Canadian salmon and whether it might be good too but do not know much about it.

Toria,

Canadian regs are just as tough as US regs.

Geo

That is what I thought. I would eat canadian salmon too. I do not even like to buy frozen fish. I would rather have fresh or none at all.

Here's a link to a news article http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2002384544_uschinafish16.html about the process of shipping US-caught seafood to China for processing.

I am very concerned about the safety of any fish now days due to the continuous meltdown of Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Power plants 4 reactors that have been melting down since 2011. Along with the constant release of nuclear radiation into the Pacific Ocean since it began in 2011 is reason for me to stay away from any Pacific fish. In California the nuclear radiation has finally hit our shores in April 2014 and I will not eat any fish that was caught anywhere in the Pacific any longer. The media downplays this situation but anyone can go on the internet and see live footage of the reactors still melting down and here we are in 2015 and no end in sight. I also read that 100% of baby orca's are not surviving birth any longer in the Pacific waters. That is zero birth success in Orcas now. So if these huge animals are loosing their young, it doesn't fare well for the rest of the fish in the Pacific. It is interesting how many people do not know that Fukushima is still in meltdown for nearly 5 years now and in the Japanese blogs radiation is being deliberately released into the ocean because they have nowhere else to put it any longer. Probably not very safe to eat any Pacific caught or farmed fish at this point.

Here's a pretty simple presentation of how Alaska salmon fisheries have been "saved" by China, despite the 8,000 mile trip to your table.
https://protestingtheprotesters.wordpre ... -of-china/
In the San Francisco Bay area, it's not easy to acquire wild salmon except during a brief little season for about one month per year. Frozen salmon comes from China because that's where the catch gets sold.
Respectfully, Professora Em

JoeSimp wrote:I am very concerned about the safety of any fish now days due to the continuous meltdown of Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Power plants 4 reactors that have been melting down since 2011. Along with the constant release of nuclear radiation into the Pacific Ocean since it began in 2011 is reason for me to stay away from any Pacific fish. In California the nuclear radiation has finally hit our shores in April 2014 and I will not eat any fish that was caught anywhere in the Pacific any longer. The media downplays this situation but anyone can go on the internet and see live footage of the reactors still melting down and here we are in 2015 and no end in sight. I also read that 100% of baby orca's are not surviving birth any longer in the Pacific waters. That is zero birth success in Orcas now. So if these huge animals are loosing their young, it doesn't fare well for the rest of the fish in the Pacific. It is interesting how many people do not know that Fukushima is still in meltdown for nearly 5 years now and in the Japanese blogs radiation is being deliberately released into the ocean because they have nowhere else to put it any longer. Probably not very safe to eat any Pacific caught or farmed fish at this point.

Your caution is well founded but your facts are not.
Yes The three Fukushima Reactors are still not contained but have solidified with the surrounding materials to produce 'Corium'. Water used to cool is slowly leaking to the environment but the amounts are small and the radiation levels are quite low.
Note: Radiation Detection equipment is quite sensitive and literally any levels can be detected whether natural or not.
Outside of a few tuna with very small increased levels nothing has been found except for waters adjacent to Fukushima.
The Japanese have a a monitoring system.
I have my own Canberra detection equipment and have detected nothing from Japan, Korea or the Pacific basin.
So your prohibition against anything from the Pacific is not well founded.
Your caution is however.-Richard
Another insight or opinion.
Websites make money on how many hits they get from advertisers. There is an incentive to get you to visit the website by using inflammatory information which in all cases is either bogus or not related. i.e. Just because Orcas are having rouble doesn't mean it's from Radiation.
Some of the self proclaimed Nuclear Experts are not founded in either Physics or Nuclear Engineering and just downright grubbing to make money and notoriety.

Recorded Orca births are pretty good (2015 best year since 1977).

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... -1.3382635

I would never buy food products sourced from China.Be aware that the USDA recently approved the importing of chickens from China.
For local fish sources,I purchased white fish fillets from a fishery in Door County.I unfortunately don't remember the name of the fisherman but believe they were around the Ephrain area.Great tasting.Also Falling Waters trout farm in Eagle wisc.