Not all farmed salmon are created equal. While it’s true that some fish-farming methods pose problems, at Verlasso®, we take great care to raise our salmon in harmony with nature.
Our mantra is that the healthiest fish is the best tasting fish. The following video explains exactly what makes Verlasso salmon different from other farmed salmon, straight...
For more than 80 years, Heinen’s Fine Foods has offered fresh food of the highest quality to Clevelanders, and the homegrown grocer today added Harmoniously Raised Verlasso® salmon to its sustainable seafood offerings. Each of the 17 Cleveland-area Heinen’s stores and one Chicago store now offer the sustainable farmed salmon that has a deep commitment to...
Salmon is a fish everyone can count on for providing healthy Omega-3 fatty acids to your diet, and this method of preparing it is simple and delicious. Serve this with a crispy salad made with greens, jicama and orange sections to enrich the sweet southwestern flavors of the salmon.
Makes 4 servings
May 6, 2013
Last week I had the opportunity to attend Fortune Magazine’s Brainstorm Green. This is the sixth year for the meeting which brings together leaders from business and non-profits to address the question: How can business profitably help solve the world’s most important environmental problems? Many topics arose and for me the two most interesting were the...
We’re always looking for salmon recipes to try at home. Since Verlasso is now available at Central Market in Texas (currently in Houston and Dallas Metroplex stores), we thought we’d focus on Texas bloggers this week. Here are 10 very different salmon recipes from Texas food bloggers that we can’t wait to try with Verlasso salmon. If you have a salmon...
This week, Verlasso®, the world’s first provider of harmoniously raised fish, and Acme Smoked Fish Corporation, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based producer and distributor of smoked fish, will unveil new Verlasso Smoked Salmon brought to you by Blue Hill Bay during the 2013 Fancy Food Show, Jan. 20-22, 2013 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
This week, thousands of beer lovers will travel to Denver, Colorado for the annual Great American Beer Festival (GABF), which takes place October 11-13. Since its 1982 launch, the festival has grown to become the premier U.S. beer festival and competition, and is now listed as one of the top 1,000 places in the U.S. to visit before you die. In fact, the...
One of the questions we often hear is: How do farmed salmon get their color? Related to this is: How is the process the same as—or different from—what happens in nature?
All salmon irrespective of their origin, have their pinkish color because they consume a carotenoid anti-oxidant that comes from their diet. The carotenoid family of anti-oxidants is what...
It’s October, which means two things: In addition to being National Seafood Month, it’s also Oktoberfest! From Munich to Milwaukee, beer lovers are dusting off their lederhosen, brushing up on their oompah-pahs, and raising a glass to celebrate this time-honored tradition. While pretzels and brats may be standard Oktoberfest fare, we at Verlasso prefer...
Over the past few months I have received many questions about the dependence the salmon aquaculture industry has on the harvest of wild fish. These questions are good ones and I would like to offer a fairly detailed discussion here. After all, catching fish to feed the fish we eat is at the heart of the question of whether aquaculture is sustainable or...
In my last post, I discussed salmon aquaculture’s “fish in, fish out” ratio and how the industry is dependent on fish such as herring, anchovies and mackerel captured from wild fisheries to feed salmon. I explained how NGOs measure that dependence for individual farms and for salmon aquaculture worldwide (what they call the “feeder fish dependency ratio,” or...
