Fish fed to farmed salmon should be part of our diet, study suggests

Scientists found that farmed salmon production leads to an overall loss of essential dietary nutrients.

People should eat more wild fish – such as mackerel, anchovies and herring, which are often used to feed farmed salmon – in order to get essential nutrients, researchers say.

These oily fish contain nutrients including calcium, B12 and omega-3, but some get lost from our diets when just the salmon fillet is eaten.