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Fresh salmon will likely be Atlantic salmon, which is largely farm-raised, and have dyes added to make it look orange or pink-- because so many consumers think salmon must look like that to be good, even though wild salmon may be white. We have generally found restaurants, in all regions, quite willing to say if their salmon is wild or farm-raised, though in some cases the first person we asked guessed it was wild, without really knowing. Fresh doesn't always mean local. We had "fresh" trout in Brevard restaurants: in one case the trout was from South Carolina, and in the other from North Carolina.
Samoi,
The vendor at the Waynesville Farmer's Mkt I rec'd has a menu of available fish/shell, fish every week.
Yes, they almost always have farmed salmon for sale, but it is noted as such; occasionally they also have wild caught.
Yes, 'fresh' doesn't mean the fish was caught in the local stream or lake, but the vendor I ref'd sells a plethora of salt water fish.
Fresh as in 'next door'? Obviously not, as the ocean is a 7-8 hr drive, east of Waynesville.
But, the owner loads 2-3 refrigerated short van trucks every Tuesday and Friday afternoon, at the NC coastal commercial docks,
drives all night to Waynesville, and a couple other towns, quantity limited.
He usually has blue fish, sea trout, sheepshead, croakers, several species of sea bass, tile fish,(my fave), and on and on, plus shell fish.
These were bought off the boats on the coast thhat day before, packed and transferred from their operation in Kitty Hawk, and arrive the next morning, 'for sale'.
Other than one doing their own ocean fishing, I don't know of any 'fresher' fish to be had...even most restaurant stuff is a few days older than that.
'Fish' in the US is usually a labyrinth nightmare in terms of species id, handling acumen, 'time', and a transportation problem, and thus often frozen.
Most of my rec'd vendor's fish is 'on ice', but not frozen.
I was not making any comment in my orig response on what one might find in any western NC resturant...but I still assure the OP that the vendor I rec'd has the best
'fresh' salt water fish in western NC, imo.
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