Previous studies have suggested that texture differences
between wild and farmed salmon are linked not only to changes
in the collagen molecule, but also to differences in muscle proximate
composition (Periago et al., 2005). In a previous study it
was found that farmed salmon were generally fattier than their
ocean-ranched wild counterparts (Mørkøre et al., 2001), but in
the present study differences in lipid content could not explain
the texture differences between WP and FP groups as the fat content
was similar, averaging 17.8% and 17.9%, respectively (Table 1).