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Neal2tire: "Omega 6 is something you need to read up on."
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I have read whole books on the subject of Omega 6 and omega 3. Omega 6 is not good or bad and omega 3 is not good or bad. It's the ratio or balance between the two that's important. In nature the smallest (wild) cold-water-fish, like sardines, eat plankton. They are therefore high in omega 3. And the bigger fish eat the small fish; that's how they get their omega 3.
If you farm raise fish where they don't have access to plankton, or the smaller fish that eat plankton, they will be deficient in Omega 3, or to state it another way, they will have a higher ratio of omega 6.
But that's not the only downside to farm raised fish. There's the issue of them being fed antibiotics etc.. When fish are farm raised I'm not going to assume that they were raised (fenced in) in the ocean. I'm going to assume the worst unless someone can prove, or show me, otherwise.