From the catalogue for next week. Rarely discounted so better be early.
Fresh Tasmanian Salmon Portions with Skin Off $23/kg (Was $46) @ Coles
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I wouldn’t be eating it cooked. Even the EPA aren’t sure if diseased fish has been sold for human consumption.
After reading about the issues surrounding salmon farming in Tasmania I'll pass. Have a look at the video clips from the Bob Brown Foundation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCLqbBinzJAWhen vested interests groups are involved the truth is always closer to the middle. Take the corporate angle, take the NGO angle, put the marker between them for a less biased view.
so about half price?
was it just me or did anyone else mistake the words Fresh with Free hahah. Free salmon would've been an ozbargain dream
No. No-one part from you
during covid I used to buy some Tas salmon fillets with skin every 3 to 4 months just as a treat for myself.
because of the price I thought I was getting premium salmon, but it's actually farmed??! TIL.
Clever marketing:
"Fresh" usually just means not frozen
"Tasmanian" conjures up images of nature and pristine waterI used to eat wild caught salmon in the states, but only when it was swimming in flavour like a Miso glaze, or raw in sashimi.
I think most cooked salmon tastes nasty.
"Tasmanian" conjures up images of nature and pristine water
yes honestly this part was enough to get me. I didn't even bother doing any research. just your average dumb consumer. 😂
I also thought the Tasmanian smoked salmon was premium, well at least it's priced that way at the store last time I checked.
Most chilled/fresh salmon has a safety of around 7 days. Due to the cold supply chains it is incredibly difficult to get chilled/fresh imported wild salmon in Australia.
Many retailers will sell flash frozen salmon though.
Is it possible to farm wild salmon? Remember the protest about farmed salmon going. I wouldn't pay more for the wild normally.
Could you clarify what you mean by farm wild salmon?
I thought of a farm that can attract salom for habitat similar to bee home.
Wild Australian "Salmon" isn't actually related to Salmon, they just look similar so that's the name.
The stuff farmed in Tasmania (and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Australia) is Atlantic Salmon, so no you can't buy fresh wild-caught best you can do is get the frozen imported stuff.
Wild caught Australian "Salmon" tastes like trout.
Would these be healthy salmons, or the ones already infected?
They are all infected. It's an 'endemic' bacteria.
Just like you have bacteria living on your skin.
Get the frozen ones from Aldi. Much less diabetic salmon (you can tell by the amount of fat compared to Tas salmon) and easy to cook. Still not great but good compromise.
Hate to tell you, Aldi sources their salmon from the same Tasmanian aquaculture pens as the rest of Australia's retailers. Namely, Tassel, Huon, etc.
Aldi 100% sources their salmon from Tasmania aquaculture pens.
Can't speak for their frozen or smoked (i.e., gravlax) though as they would use a variety of domestic and imported supply chains for those.
I specifically said frozen for a reason.
Sorry, you're correct. I missed that.
@Saywhatold: Np. Try them if you can. I have to use a bit of oil to cook these, but never the Tasmanian salmon, they are always dripping with fat.
@Alley Cat: Some people love the healthy fish oil, of course, more oil means less meat, but lots of people are lack of omega oil.
@bcYield: That is so not true. There is such a thing as essential fat, every body has it. And there is such a thing as overweight fat. The farmed salmon are simply obese lol I doubt they have much omega 3 in them. The point of supplementing omega 3 is to balance out the heavy load of 6 and 9 we have in our diet, not are you failing that with those fatty salmon, you’d also be eating a crap load of whatever toxins that are stored in the fat.
If you are interested in this, get some rainbow trout and compare it to the farmed salmon. They are like the before and after pictures. Rainbow trouts will one day turn into the farmed salmon we have today, but we still have some time until the $-hungry corps catch up.
As far as clean fat goes, cows are the least compromised source because they are vegetarians, it’s harder to feed them random food. Then again you want them to be grass fed, because grains give them diabetes.
Do some research, it’s only your health. Something something you can’t buy, except you can stop buying illnesses.
@Alley Cat: You like going on about diabetes in fish and cattle don't you. Mind providing some peer reviewed evidence for your theory that this is a problem in farmed fish that could affect its consumption?
@michkenn: lol why would I need a third party to tell me what's good or bad for me, when it's right in front of my eyes?
Here's some food for thought: farming fish is a lot cheaper than catching them in the wild, so it makes sense to get omega 3 out of these. Have you ever seen any fish oil/fat supplement that says it's from 'Proudly farmed salmon in Tas'? Surely, if it's such a premium product, you can market and sell it at a premium?
At the end of the day, you can have all the food I won't touch, it's a win-win for everyone. But I guess you need a paper on that too.
@Alley Cat: It could be personal condition and individual diet. The study can go through a variety of group of people since we are from diff background especially in Australia.
There's a reason that salmons are sold in high price (personally I don't buy at over $30/$40/kg). Not just salmons, other fishes can give omega oil too. With the test methods, they have a way to tell if it's too much or toxic or harmful. We need numbers.
It's good to be concerned and I don't say it's right or wrong.
@michkenn: You can just look at a whole farmed salmon, it's as wide as it is tall. It is literally obese. It is harmful to eat? Probably not, but I wouldn't assume it has the same profile of fat as a wild fish
Aldi frozen ones last I checked come from Norway or similar scandinavian country.
Nowadays just buy the fresh ones from Costco, are limited in frequency coz we only go like once a month.
If you can afford it, Australian farmed barramundi is the more sustainable choice https://goodfish.org.au/sustainable-seafood-guide/
I think that's the large size one from 4kg, usually $20/kg and sometimes $15/kg for the whole fish ended up spending $60 and more again. New Zealand has farmed salmon tho.
The farmed Australian barra are usually sold as babies 1.2-2.0 kg for whole fish. The only 4kg+ barramundi I've seen was a wild one. Can also pick up fillets on special sometimes too.
The baby bara cost more from what I see tho. Over $20/kg from memory.
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At Coles, we care about how the seafood we sell is sourced and produced. When sourcing our seafood we recognise a range of certification and assessment programs. For farmed (aquaculture) seafood Coles Own Brand products must be certified by: Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC); Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP); or GLOBALG.A.P. This Atlantic salmon has been raised in the cool waters of Tasmania and is carefully selected for its quality and freshness.
This makes a mockery out of Coles and those certifiers.
I can't see a good deal in eating shitty, diseased fish at any price.
I find it interesting how this comment gets negged, but no one actually says why. Is it to get the downvote for the deal removed?
Honestly, with all the comments, would you expect 200+ positive votes and zero negative votes?
So they release the stock due to closing down during the cyclone? Goodluck finding the sock in the freezer.
I don't need any more socks though.
Bahah
reminds me of soylent green, do they feed live salmon other dead salmon ?
Thanks for spoiling the movie
I'm confused by the first comment link. So are these all good to eat? If there's 5,500 tonnes of salmon dead from disease, these ones at Coles are still fine? or perhaps if we consume this disease, it wont affect humans?
They appear to mix dead fish with live fish. If you eat dead, diseased fish, it's uncharted waters.
I’m not sure the dead and live fish were for the consumption haul, they were taking them out as they were diseased to be discarded. Got any references?
Maybe I wont buy then…I dont really wish to gamble for half price fish
When i cannot find Salmon I settle for ill tempered Sea Bass with frickin laser beams
This will be different for others, but this isn’t a bargain for me at any price. I stopped eating it a while ago. As others have pointed out above there are better options.
You'd have to pay me to eat this, absolutely rank.
i guess the question is, if it is safe to eat and whats the worst can happen? Will it be safe after we process them?
Nothing unless you eat too much of it. I'm getting some, its a good deal. There are way worse foods all around us. Do we just drink water and eat air?
You know there are options in between eating rotting fish and starvation?
Come on its far from rotting lol. Any perishable is gonna rot after awhile if not consumed.
The issue is this salmon is fed so poorly that there is almost no good natural fish oil in it. That's a fact, go look it up.
The locals are far more outraged at the Tesla dealership being vandalised than the dying fish.
I'm all for aquaculture, it's the only way to feed our stupidly high world population. But as usual money is everything and quality/environment is a distant last. Get filthy rich idiotic mentality where overheads are reduced to the bone, instead of just being sensible about running costs.
I wouldn't say salmon farming is getting you filthy rich…If you looked at any salmon farming share price when Tassel and Houn was listed it was always terrible, you invest so much into your stock and infrastructure and you have a really uncertain agricultural outcome, mix in 2 big customers (Colesworth) whom control your selling price and you end up with marginal return on good years and terrible return on bad years.
So you end up investing more on automation like bigger boats to churn your pens around for fresh water and the locals than hate the noise and lights of it, and you're back to square one again. You're better off telling people to go vegetarian.
Any word if woolies doing the same?
Doubt it. Coles did this too last year and Woolies didn't follow
I read all the comments and i am very confused. I buy Salmon both from Coles and Wollies and some are clearly marked as farmed. I've been thinking I bought wild salmon all this while but I could be wrong. I buy this particular brand and it says its sourced from the cool waters of Tasmania. https://ibb.co/4gd6wkbx
People here are commenting how healthy the Salmon from Atlantic ocean is but I didnt see a single comment about the dangerous levels of mercury they carry.My question is, do supermarkets (Coles/Wollies) sell wild caught Salmon in fresh form. The product I've been buying says so.
Thank you.
do supermarkets (Coles/Wollies) sell wild caught Salmon in fresh form
Your only option for wild caught salmon is from Atlantic which comes either frozen or canned
dangerous levels of mercury they carry.
Salmons aren't top predators like tuna, so won't have high levels of Hg.
Just went to buy some….no stock apparently. Funny because I was here yesterday and there was lots of stock..
No stock in the two NSW stores I checked too
How did you check it, called the stores?
No stock at my local either. Signs were up and I got there early as well.
Not in my local Coles, but they gave me rain check for 6kg. I doubt I'll buy as I can't find references saying they are not these infected salmons.
Coles just increase price from $44 to $46 then sell for $23…. Normalize the new price due to this incident…
just collected an order of 3kgs , came box packed from the supplier(Tassal) .
BB date of 19/03/2025U can order online?
Why not ?
Coles Deli Fresh Tasmanian Salmon Portions Skin Off | approx. 250g
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Went to Coles specifically for Salmon and prawn Goyzas (also on special). Completely sold out of both by Thursday afternoon. Hopeless.
I feel lucky I got it on Wednesday. I also usually ask them to check the back for more though when it is sold out.
I went to Coles yesterday and at the deli counter only a few pieces were remaining. I asked for 3 Kg as my coles deal of spend $70 a week for 4 weeks gives me 10,000 points. (I also bought 1 remaining discounted piece they had at $15 kg , it equalled $2.44 .
So the girl went to the fridge and they come on a carton of packages of 1.5 kg. They had the $34.50 label on them. At the scan i weighed each pack one was 1.78 kg the other 1.69 kg..
So equalled under $23 a kg. :)
$$71.44 my bill , that will give me 2500 points in 2 more weeks to under $20 a kg in the end.OOS @ Roselands
Don't even know if they're getting in more..I went to my coles to have a look. There were 3-4 portions left. But they looked so just not nice they look like picked up off the floor or sth.
These are sourced from the same farms as the fish stores in westfields right? If so how can they look so unappetising?I'd guess that's the reason they were the last portions left
I'm not sure I don't usually look at the fish at the supermarket usually I look at the fish store next door.
Are they usually ok? usually they're not presented very nicely
Can’t say much about yours but my local store has been ok. Of course you can’t compare it to fish shop where they charge ~$60/kg for salmon
plenty of them yesterday in my nearest store. but the quality of the meat is not that great hencewhy they were plenty i guessed
Is raincheck available for this ?
Yes I got 6kg rain check.
my local coles staff said no rain check for deli when i asked for
My local also told me no raincheck.
Heaps left in Coles Toronga (VIC) in case anyone wanted to know. Sat 15 March 2pm.
My local sold out. Wendouree, Vic.
Said next delivery likely Monday.
:(Typical ozbargains jumping on every main stream media band wagon. Salmon has been farmed and safely consumed for ages. All commercial farming have problems. If they are drumming up public opinion now you can be sure there is some alternative agenda.
Do you question what's in all the other things you are eating?
Only one negative vote on your post in nearly 7hrs. They must have moved on to another issue. Here’s a vote to get you back to square.
We buy this wild caught salmon from Coles (not frozen) https://www.coles.com.au/product/agrios-red-sockeye-salmon-5…
Oooh fancy
Anything can be sashimi grade if you don't value your life lol
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