Fish flavored dry cat food

I feed my kitten both dry and canned food, and right now all of it is strictly chicken flavored (Nutro Natural brand), however I was looking up the adult dry food versions of this brand, and some of them -including the grain-free one is fish flavored.   I know fish flavored canned food isn't so good for them and you should only do it once in a while, but I'm having a hard time finding any useful info online about the fish based dry food (one is white fish and one is salmon flavored) so any advice is appreciated,  thanks!

I tend to avoid fish as an ingredient as any food for my cats. I do feed fish flavors sometimes because my cats like them, but mostly I try to avoid them. I wouldn't feed them a dry food with mostly fish. Right now, I feed my cats Nature's Variety Instinct which has some fish in it, but far less than many other foods. 

My cats love fish based foods. I rotate both meats and brands. Right now, their kibble is salmon based. Canned is tuna and white fish, turkey and giblets, mixed grill, and salmon.

Feeding foods heavy in fish has been linked to several health issues including hyperthyroidism. I fed my older cat fish based kibble foods for several years (before i knew better) and he developed hyperthyroidism last year. 

http://www.littlebigcat.com/nutrition/why-fish-is-dangerous-for-cats/

Not knowing any better, I fed my first cat fish; both dry and wet.  He developed stomach cancer & had to be put to sleep.  Now I don't feed any fish or any dry food. 

Thus far I am comfortable feeding salmon because I understand that most salmon meat that is used in cat food is from farmed raised salmon; a fish which should have less pollutants than ocean travelers.   Also, my gal loves the Sardine & Shrimp recipe from Natural Value brand cat food.  In any event, she gets fish only occasionally, about one or two meals a week.  I try to avoid the ubiquitous "Ocean Whitefish."  I never feed Tuna to her.

How would you know for sure if the Salmon is farm raised? Will it state it on the package?  The grain-free version of my kittens brand of food (Nutro) comes in either salmon or duck flavor, and I would love to stick to the brand, maybe rotate between the 2 flavors.

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I don't like for mine to eat anything "fishie" if I can keep from it.  Heck, I'm leery myself of eating some fish at restaurants because I don't know where it comes from.

Every once in a while Wurp goes on a hunger strike and does the "I don't want that" over and over, no matter what can I open.  Usually then I relent and give him a fish flavor.  I usually give it a day or so before I do to see if he picks up and eats what I am trying to get him to eat, then give him a can of fishie stuff.  I can't stand the smell of it, and it just, I don't know, looks dirty.  If that makes sense. 

Around my area, farm-raised fish are considered much worse than ocean caught or river-caught.  There are many fish farms in my area, and they are just nasty--there are many catfish farms, and a few tilapia farms.  Full of antibiotics, sludge (what I call it anyway), algae, and molds.  But those are just the ones near me.  I know people that work at them and they tell horrific stories about all the dead fish that have to be scooped out. Some of them do sell to pet food manufacturers, and the "sludge" and fish parts that are considered waste from the packing companies goes to them.  The sludge I'm referring to is goop they scoop off the top of the ponds.  Blecchhhh!

I feed mostly wet food and never with fish as a primary ingredient or flavor, and only Iams Chicken dry food as dessert or snack.  As a rescue, sometimes I have gotten cats in who were addicted to fish flavor and to dry food, and it has been a bit of a challenge to get them switched over to non-fish and wet.  Interesting, however, that someone gave me one can of some higher priced fish type cat food, and the only one who would eat it was the 16-year-old LH white that I inherited from my neighbor when he succumbed to diabetes many years ago.  The rest of the looked at me as if to say, "That's not my food."

Thanks for the advice! It's so unfortunate how limited the healthy food for them is out there.  Some of the other seemingly healthy grain-free and fish free brands have cranberries and other fruits in it which I've learned aren't so good for them either!