Wild Sea bass is superior. But noticed the super cheap price of local sea-bass? A local sea bass business owner wun eat his own cultured fish.
Farmed Saltwater Sea Bass is like farmed Freshwater catfish (sold as suchi or dory). Globally, Sea Bass is like a miracle aquaculture product through extensive use of Chemicals and artificial pheromones are used in the breeding, and their ability to survive in slightly more polluted waters that coral reefs can't survive (higher dioxins), eg major shipping passageways.