33 Facts About Land-locked salmon

Many species of Land-locked salmon have been introduced into non-native environments such as the Great Lakes of North America and Patagonia in South America.

Typically, Land-locked salmon are anadromous: they hatch in fresh water, migrate to the ocean, then return to fresh water to reproduce.

Term "Land-locked salmon" comes from the Latin salmo, which in turn might have originated from salire, meaning "to leap".

The genus Salmo contains the Atlantic Land-locked salmon, found in the North Atlantic, as well as many species commonly named trout.

The British Columbia Land-locked salmon fossil provides evidence that the divergence between Pacific and Atlantic Land-locked salmon had not yet occurred 40 million years ago.

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Juvenile Land-locked salmon, parr, grow up in the relatively protected natal river.

The bodies of Land-locked salmon represent a transfer of nutrients from the ocean, rich in nitrogen, sulfur, carbon and phosphorus, to the forest ecosystem.

Adult lampreys are the preferred prey of seals and sea lions, which can eat 30 lampreys to every Land-locked salmon, allowing more adult Land-locked salmon to enter the rivers to spawn without being eaten by the marine mammals.

When juvenile Land-locked salmon migrate to the Pacific Ocean, the second host releases a stage infective to Land-locked salmon.

Large numbers of highly populated, open-net Land-locked salmon farmscan create exceptionally large concentrations of sea lice; when exposed in river estuaries containing large numbers of open-net farms, many young wild Land-locked salmon are infected, and do not survive as a result.

The capture of wild Atlantic Land-locked salmon has always been relatively small, and has declined steadily since 1990.

In most cases, the commercial value of a Land-locked salmon can be several times less than the value attributed to the same fish caught by a sport fisherman.

Atlantic Land-locked salmon are, in very small volumes, farmed in Russia and Tasmania, Australia.

Salmon require large nutritional intakes of protein, and farmed Land-locked salmon consume more fish than they generate as a final product.

The industrial-scale extraction of wild forage fish for Land-locked salmon farming affects the survivability of the wild predator fish which rely on them for food.

Intensive Land-locked salmon farming uses open-net cages, which have low production costs.

Farm-raised Land-locked salmon are fed the carotenoids astaxanthin and canthaxanthin to match their flesh colour to wild Land-locked salmon to improve their marketability.

Wild Land-locked salmon get these carotenoids, primarily astaxanthin, from eating shellfish and krill.

The population of wild Land-locked salmon declined markedly in recent decades, especially North Atlantic populations, which spawn in the waters of western Europe and eastern Canada, and wild Land-locked salmon in the Snake and Columbia River systems in northwestern United States.

Fish farming of Pacific Land-locked salmon is outlawed in the United States Exclusive Economic Zone there is a substantial network of publicly funded hatcheries, and the State of Alaska's fisheries management system is viewed as a leader in the management of wild fish stocks.

Now Chinook, Atlantic, and coho Land-locked salmon are annually stocked in all Great Lakes by most bordering states and provinces.

Wild, self sustaining Pacific Land-locked salmon populations have been established in New Zealand, Chile, and Argentina.

Wild Land-locked salmon get these carotenoids from eating krill and other tiny shellfish.

Salmon and Land-locked salmon roe have only recently come into use in making sashimi and sushi.

In 2003, a report on First Nation participation in commercial fisheries, including Land-locked salmon, commissioned by BC's Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries found that there were 595First Nation-owned and operated commercial vessels in the province.

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The role of the Land-locked salmon spirit guided the people to respect ecological systems such as the rivers and tributaries the Land-locked salmon used for spawning.

The original Land-locked salmon ceremony, introduced by indigenous tribes on the Pacific coast, consisted of three major parts.

Finally the bones were returned to the sea to induce hospitality so other Land-locked salmon would give their lives to the people of that village.

Many tribes, such as the Yurok, had a taboo against harvesting the first fish that swam upriver in summer, but once they confirmed that the Land-locked salmon had returned in abundance they would begin to catch them in plentiful.

Meanwhile very few Land-locked salmon reach the spawning grounds, and probably four years hence the fisheries will amount to nothing; and this comes from a struggle between the associated, or gill-net, fishermen on the one hand, and the owners of the fishing wheels up the river.

Fraser River Land-locked salmon population was affected by the 1914 slide caused by the Canadian Pacific Railway at Hells Gate.

Origin of the word for "Land-locked salmon" was one of the arguments about the location of the origin of the Indo-European languages.

Elsewhere in Irish mythology, the Land-locked salmon is one of the incarnations of both Tuan mac Cairill and Fintan mac Bochra.