Top Ten Facts About Salmon
Salmon are one of the most widespread and commonly known fish, and they are also a delicious dish when prepared properly.However, there's more to these fish than just being on Gordon Ramsay's list of best dishes.
Atlantic salmon can detect one drop of scent in an area equivalent to ten Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Salmon can be three different colors over the course of their life. For example, juvenile sockeye salmon are light-colored and spotted. During their adult years in the ocean, they are silvery blue. When it's time to spawn, their bodies turn a brilliant red and their heads turn green.
Atlantic salmon, Chinook salmon, Chum salmon, Coho salmon, Pink salmon, and Sockeye salmon.
Many believe that the word "salmon" comes from the Latin word salmo or salire, which means "to leap." If you've seen salmon battling rapids and strong currents as they head upriver to spawn, then you know they are aptly named.
The name is derived from the Greek onkos (meaning "hook") and rhynchos (meaning "nose"). This refers to the "kype," the hooked jaw that forms in males during competition for females in mating season.
There are more than 9,000 salmon populations (species and stream combinations) in British Columbia. These are organized into about 450 conservation units used in resource management.
Adults can go six months without food, transferring body fat into their gametes for reproduction.
This is because they do not have the same number of chromosomes.
These sound waves vibrate through the water to a row of sensory pores called lateral lines on the sides of the salmon.