Reply To: Favorite herring flavors?

Gadol H and others: Take care with consuming tuna and salmon, They are apex predators and accumulators of heavy metals. Salmon has the distinction of being mostly farmed fish, full of antibiotic and anti parasitic meds. The pellets that they are fed come from any fat and protein sources they can find cheapest. The fat content is stabilized with a product of Monsanto (yemach shemam) The artificial diet often does not produce great flavor or orange flesh. This is remediated with artificial dyes and flavor infusions. This is the going menu for American and Norwegian product, For Asian suppliers the picture is way bleaker
In my younger years before I became an extremist vegetarian, I caught herring off south shore Long Island, When the fish were opened, there was a black slime on the belly wall. An old timer told me this was result of pollution. Sorry.