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Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the family are called trout. Salmon live in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as the Great Lakes and other land locked lakes. The Kamchatka Peninsula, in the Russian Far East, contains the world's greatest salmon sanctuary.
Typically, salmon are anadromous: they are born in fresh water, migrate to the ocean, then return to fresh water to reproduce. Folklore has it that the fish return to the exact spot where they were born to spawn and modern research shows that usually at least 90% of the fish spawning in a stream were born there. In Alaska, the crossing over to other streams allows salmon to populate new streams, such as those that emerge as a glacier retreats. The precise method salmon use to navigate has not been entirely established, though their keen sense of smell is certainly involved. In all species of Pacific salmon, the mature individuals die within a few days or weeks of spawning, a trait known as semelparity. Even in those species of salmon that may survive to spawn more than once (iteroparity), however, post-spawning mortality is quite high (perhaps as high as 40 to 50%.) Those species average about two or, perhaps, three spawning events per individual.
Coastal dwellers have long respected the salmon. Most peoples of the Northern Pacific shores had a ceremony to honor the first return of the year. For many centuries, people caught salmon as they swam upriver to spawn. A famous spearfishing site on the Columbia River at Celilo Falls was inundated after great dams were built on the river. The Ainu, of northern Japan, taught dogs how to catch salmon as they returned to their breeding grounds en masse. Now, salmon are caught in bays and near shore. Long drift net fisheries have been banned on the high seas except off the coast of Ireland.
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CoolGreenSearch (Green Planet Search) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:04:12 -0000
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@mayangsekars berapa yaa? kemaren yang new york spicy, salmon roll, ama unagi hahaha
anggaparamartha (angga paramartha) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:57:05 -0000
@mayangsekars berapa yaa? kemaren yang new york spicy, salmon roll, ama unagi hahaha
the salmon is well but the other is hell
Valestrange (Valerie Joan) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:52:10 -0000
the salmon is well but the other is hell
Tonights feast - salmon with fennel, orange, balsamic in the wood fired oven. http://yfrog.com/336zuj
BZB (Lizzie P) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:45:50 -0000
Tonights feast - salmon with fennel, orange, balsamic in the wood fired oven. http://yfrog.com/336zuj
But srsly, sakae sushi's salmon sashimi is DA BOMB.
angelineey (Angeline) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:41:44 -0000
But srsly, sakae sushi's salmon sashimi is DA BOMB.
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luluj_s (Julia Shates) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:40:12 -0000
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