First thought it was the EU blocking it, but it’s their own government
It always was!
The UK should try this one easy trick:
Rejoin the EU. My only condition is that we get to pick an international day of pointing and laughing at them.
Well bugger. I live in Germany now, and salmon imported from Norway is disgusting. I miss Scottish salmon.
The wild ones are fine, only farmed salmon tastes boring.
Hmm. People often have historically had strong preferences for more-expensive wine, but when put to the test in blind tests, price comes pretty decoupled from ranking. I wonder if anyone has done that for farmed and wild salmon?
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Washington Post ran a blind test in the US and found that there was indeed a difference between farmed and wild rankings…but they found that farmed salmon ranked higher than wild salmon.
And the top-two ranked entries were the two farmed Norwegian condenders, with the cheapest one coming out on top.
Read a story about salmon, and the odds are good that, somewhere, it’ll tell you that wild salmon tastes better than farmed. But does it? We decided to find out in a blind tasting, and assembled a panel that included noted Washington seafood chefs and a seafood wholesaler.
The fish swam the gamut. We had wild king from Washington, frozen farmed from Costco, and eight in between, including Verlasso farmed salmon from Chile, which is the first open-pen farmed salmon to get a Seafood Watch “buy” recommendation. The tasters came from the Food section and the local seafood scene.
Scott Drewno, executive chef of the Source by Wolfgang Puck, was gracious enough to prepare the fish; this was like Usain Bolt consenting to go for a jog. Drewno steamed portioned fillets simply, with a little salt.
The judgments were definitive, and surprising. Farmed salmon beat wild salmon, hands down. The overall winner was the Costco frozen Atlantic salmon (Norwegian), added to the tasting late in the game — to provide a counterpoint to all that lovely fresh fish, we thought.
The Scottish entries took positions #3 and #5.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A trial of a system designed to cut red tape for fish exporters after Brexit is to end without an immediate replacement, causing dismay in the salmon industry.
The digitisation of the paper health certificates required for all fish and chilled food being exported to Europe was intended to save traders time and up to £3m on post-Brexit paperwork.
“Whilst moving to a fully digital service for export health certificates remains our ambition, we are planning to bring the current exercise to a close,” an official wrote to them.
It was hoped that the new electronic certification system could be introduced in the UK and then in other ports across Europe, including in Ireland, the Netherlands and Scandinavia.
It says the salmon industry is worth £760m to the economy but other sectors selling chilled food, including poultry and cheese producers, could have also benefited from the digital certification.
The UK also recently delayed indefinitely the plans to introduce an alternative to the CE safety label with its own UKCA logo in another Brexit climbdown.
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