Salmon, transliteration of Salmon english Salmon. Salmon does not refer to a single species of fish, but is a generic term for several species of salmonidae fish.
More than 300 species of salmonids live in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and can be found in non-native areas such as Patagonia and the Great Lakes, and are farmed all over the world. Most of them are migratory rayfin fish and are one of the common edible fish.
Salmon are born in freshwater, then move to seawater to grow and migrate to freshwater to reproduce. It will use the guidance of the sun and the earth's magnetic field to swim back to its own birthplace to reproduce. Salmon in the Pacific generally die a few weeks after breeding.
In a wide variety of salmonids
Compare representative salmon with high commercial value
There are 9 species in total
Atlantic salmon
Salmo salar
Also known as the Ontario salmon, it is a salmon species found mainly in the waters of the North Atlantic and surrounding rivers. Large individuals can reach 110-150 cm and weigh more than 40 kg. Atlantic salmon juveniles differ from adults. While they are still living in freshwater, they have blue and red spots on their bodies. When they enter the sea, they turn silvery blue. They are most easily recognizable by the black spots on their lateral lines. When they reproduce, the males are pale green or red. They are fusiform and have well-developed teeth. All fins have black edges except for the adipose fins.
Atlantic salmon breed in these rivers: in Western Europe, from Portugal in the north to Norway, Iceland and Greenland, and on the east coast of North America from Connecticut in the United States to Labrador in Canada. Atlantic salmon that roam the aquaculture farms are found in the river basins of British Columbia leading to the Pacific Ocean. They are mainly distributed in the ocean opposite Greenland and will return to the river where they were born. Before the 19th century, they were also found in central New York State.
Imperial Salmon
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
The monarch salmon, also known as the large scaled salmon or transliteration of the Chinook salmon, can reach a length of up to 150 cm. It is a temperate fish found in the North Pacific, from the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk, Alaska, the Bering Sea, Canada's freshwater, brackish waters and seas. Inhabiting the surface waters, it will migrate, and the juveniles will migrate back to the sea after hatching, feeding on insects and crustaceans, adult fish for oceanic, fish, crustaceans, etc., and moving in groups.
Monarch salmon live in the ocean for one to eight years (an average of three to four years) before returning to lay their eggs. Large areas of red patches began to appear on the silvery-white body, and the males grew canine teeth and bent their upper and lower jaws into a hook.
Salmon
Oncorhynchus keta
Salmon, also known as Japanese salmon, dog salmon, autumn salmon, white salmon, the maximum length is about 100 cm. It is found in the North Pacific Ocean, from South Korea, Japan, and the east coast of Siberia to the Bering Sea, China's Heilongjiang, Tumen, Suifenhe and other water systems, British Columbia in Canada and Alaska and Oregon in the United States.
Salmon usually live in the ocean and flock up the river during the reproductive period. They have a strong ability to swim against the water, and can even cross waterfalls to reach their destination. During the river migration, the dorsal side of the body is yellow-green, the abdomen is silvery-white, and over time, the body color gradually darkens, and 10 to 12 purple-red longitudinal stripes appear on the body side. When you reach the spawning ground, the entire body color becomes dull.
Silver salmon
Oncorhynchus kisutch
Silver salmon, up to 108 cm long, have an iron-blue or green back, a white ventral surface, black spots on the dorsal, upper side and upper lobes of the caudal fin, and turn dark during the breeding season, and bright red on the sides. Silver salmon are found in the North Pacific, from the Russian Far East and Hokkaido to Alaska, the Gulf of California freshwater, brackish water and sea, at a depth of 0-250 m. Adults inhabit the ocean, migrating to freshwater streams to spawn during the breeding period, juveniles return to the ocean after 1-2 years of life in streams and lakes, juveniles feed on insects, and adults feed on squid, jellyfish, fish, etc.
Cherry trout
Oncorhynchus masou
Cherry trout, also known as cherry salmon and masu salmon, is a species of salmon genus. Distributed from the Korean Peninsula to the Sea of Okhotsk, as well as the Tumen River and the central Part of the Yellow Sea, it is a migratory fish species that has formed a land-sealed population. It can reach a maximum length of 71 cm and weighs 9 kg. Mature cherry trout have a dark back, bright red stripes on the sides, and a light belly.
Like other Pacific salmon, the life cycle of the cherry trout is divided into two stages: marine and freshwater. Cherry trout live in rivers for one to three years, and they generally live in waterholes or in the center of rivers, eating insect larvae or flying insects. Thereafter lived in the ocean for two to 3.5 years. In the oceans, they feed on crustaceans and eat less small fish. Cherry trout are sexually mature between the ages of three and seven, when they return to the river to give birth, and they return to the river earlier than other salmon.
Pink salmon
Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
Pink salmon, also known as humpback salmon, fine-scaled salmon, humpback salmon, the maximum recorded length was 76 cm and weight 6.8 kg. Distributed in the northern Pacific Ocean and its coastal rivers, such as suifen river, Tumen river, etc., it is a migratory fish. In the ocean, the color is bright silver.
When migrating to the stream where it lays its eggs, the color turns pale grey and the belly pale white (some of them all become dark green). Like all salmon, in addition to the dorsal fin, they have a fat fin. This fish is characterized by a white mouth with black gums, no teeth, and large oval black spots on the back and V-shaped tail. During spawning migration, males develop distinct fleshy peaks on their backs.
Red salmon
Oncorhynchus nerka
Red salmon, also known as blue-backed salmon, can reach a total length of 84 cm and weigh 2.5-3.5 kg, with a slender shape, resembling a torpedo, fat fins, and a blunt snout. Its body color changes when it returns from seawater to freshwater: in freshwater it is bright red and its head is pale green; females occasionally have yellow or green mottles. When living in the seawater, the back is blue-green, the abdomen is silver, and the skin is evenly smooth. It lives in the waters of the Pacific Ocean, south to the Columbia River in the east Pacific Ocean and northern Hokkaido Island in the western Pacific Ocean.
Blunt salmon
Salmo obtusirostris
Blunt salmon , up to 70 cm long , spindle-shaped , slightly flattened , thick and blunt lips , slightly prominent upper jaw , rounded scales , brown back , silvery white on the side and abdomen , densely covered with black and orange spots with white edges. It is found in Europe in Albania, Montenegro and Croatia.
Bulbophyllum
Salmo labrax
The trout, up to 110 cm long, has a spindle-shaped body, slightly flattened sides, a black back, a silvery gray to silvery white on the side of the body to the abdomen, a round scale on the back of the body, a pronounced lateral line, and three small black round spots on the upper half of the body. It is found in the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Danube Delta. It is a migratory fish, the breeding period is from October to November every year, the adult fish will go up the river to lay eggs on the gravel beach, after hatching, the baby fish will swim back to the sea, live in the sea for 2 to 4 years, is carnivorous, feeding on invertebrates and fish.
In addition, some fish are also called "salmon", except for the Danaujero, which is a large freshwater fish of the salmon family, all other species belong to the order Perciformes.
Donaujero fish
Hucho hucho
The Donaujero can reach a length of up to 150 cm. The body is elongated, slightly flattened, and the dorsal abdomen is not raised. The head is large, slender and pointed, and has a uniform, curved shape. The mouth is large, oblique and laterally lobed. The body is brown with many small black spots, the abdomen is silvery-white, the fins are gray, and the caudal fins are recessed.
It is found in the Danube River Basin and is usually solitary, inhabiting fast-moving streams and high oxygen-containing waters. Adult fish are territorial and carnivorous. Juvenile fish mainly prey on invertebrates, adult fish mainly prey on fish, amphibians, reptiles, small mammals and water birds.
Australian perch fish
Arripis
Pictured: Australian perch is a genus of trout
Australian perch, also known as Australian perch, trout, is the only genus of the Australian perch family, mainly distributed in Australia and New Zealand, also known as "Australian salmon", but it is not related to the real salmon, which was named by early European colonists because of its resemblance to salmon.
The genus contains 4 species: The Big-Eyed Perch, the Trout Perch, the Small-Eyed Perch, and the Jing perch.
Spinning
Elagatis bipinnulata
Shī , also known as double banded trevally , can reach a maximum length of 160 cm and a weight of 46 kg. The body is spindle-shaped , with a bluish-black back , a silver-white band with a light blue hue on the ventral surface , and two parallel light blue longitudinal bands on the sides of the body. Widely distributed in the warm waters of the world's oceans, it is an extraoceanic fish species, rarely reaching coastal waters, feeding on small fish and invertebrates.
Four-fingered mackerel
Eleutheronema rhadinum
The four-fingered mackerel (bà), also known as the Indian salmon, is a large individual up to 200 cm long, with an elongated and lateral flattened body. The snout is short and blunt, the lower lip is found only at the corners of the mouth, and the teeth are exposed outside the upper and lower jaws, without a swim bladder. The pectoral fin has 4 free filamentous soft stripes. The back of the body is greyish brown and the ventral side is milky white. Distributed in the western Indo-Pacific, it is a tropical coastal migratory fish that often inhabits the inner bay, estuaries and sandy muddy seabeds, feeds on invertebrates, and often flocks to the intertidal zone to feed.
Finally, let's talk about eating
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Salmon sashimi
Salmon meat is high in protein, omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin D and is considered a beneficial food. In addition, the cholesterol content is also relatively high, reaching 214 micrograms of cholesterol per 100 grams of meat.
Salmon sashimi
Salmon meat is generally orange or dark red (such as red salmon) there are also many varieties of white meat, wild salmon rely on crustaceans such as shrimp to survive, fish meat will appear orange-red, in the Atlantic salmon farmers in order to make salmon similar to wild astaxanthin performance, add carotenoids and other edible coloring to the feed to increase color and sell.
Nearly 99% of salmon produced in the Atlantic Ocean are kept in captivity.
Genetically modified salmon was approved for marketing in the United States in 2015 and may become the first genetically modified meat to be served, and this salmon takes only one-third of the time to be farmed.
Salmon sushi
Salmon can be eaten in a variety of ways, and grilled salmon is a home-cooked dish in Japan. The Japanese also make salmon head into dishes such as salt-grilled salmon; Europe and the United States make smoked salmon in hot or cold smoke, or canned salmon for storage. Pickled salmon is also found in the Nordic region. In addition, Norway invented salmon sushi in order to open up the salmon market in Japan.
In the south of China, it is mainly imported Atlantic salmon, and in some areas salmon often refers specifically to Atlantic salmon.
In the north, salmon that eats more in the Pacific Ocean often return to Heilongjiang, Ussuri River and other rivers in September and October to spawn, so it is also called "autumn salmon". Some traders will take advantage of the difference in species to mix rainbow trout with salmon.
Both the trout genus and the Pacific salmon genus have many species called trout at the same time. In addition, the blunt-snouted salmon and the trout of the genus trout are considered one of the salmon in English-speaking countries. Although rainbow trout migrates from freshwater to seawater, it is not generally considered a species of salmon.
Pictured: Rainbow Trout
Because rainbow trout is very similar in meat and color to salmon and the price is lower, some sushi restaurants may sell rainbow trout as salmon. The farmed rainbow trout is very susceptible to parasite infection, theoretically it is to be cooked and eaten, not raw. Rainbow trout can parasitize 23 species of protists and at least 169 species of epizoa parasites, and farmed rainbow trout are equally susceptible to parasite infection.
Even "real salmon" can have parasites, and eating them raw is just as risky.
White spots on salmon flesh were found, most likely a parasite, and the biological classification belongs to the slime animals. For health reasons, it is best to cook before eating.