Chinook salmon

Atlantic Salmon Fishing Fishing Atlantic salmon is not like catching trout. A trout will feed day or night and when it so desires whereas the Atlantic salmon has come from the ocean strong and fat, but has not come to feed. It has come to spawn. The male joins up with the female, to create more future salmon. A place is selected in the river and becomes the nesting area. This area is mainly protected by the male and these are the gender that are mostly caught on the Puelo River, in…

beef. One of the first cons of farmed fish starts with the levels of critical omega-3s that are reduced by almost 50 percent in farmed fish, due to increasing amounts of grain and processed dead fish found in the feed. Farmed salmon for instance, is much fattier than wild salmon, but it contains far less of the healthy omega-3’s and less protein. Many of the farmed species are…

on the salmon population in specific regions. One of the most infamous diseases, the Ulcerative Dermal Necrosis, which is one that effected almost all the salmon in Scotland in the late 1970’s. In attempts to remove the parasite that was killing the fish, Scotland succumbed to loosing all the salmon in nearly over 20 Norwegian rivers. “The parasite, called Gyrodactylus salaris, infects the gills, fins and skin of a variety of freshwater fish and holds on to the salmon with tiny hooks (“Salmon in…

Have you ever noticed the air temperatures getting warmer, storms being much larger than they used to be? These are effects of global warming because the amounts of fossil fuels that we burn on a daily bases. The emissions of all the fuels we burn clogs up the atmosphere of the earth like a blanket and heats the earth up more than it would if we didn’t burn fossil fuels because it doesn’t allow gasses to escape out into the atmosphere. With the air heating up and getting warmer, the water…

The Dam Problem with the Decline of Pacific Northwest Salmon For generations upon generations, native Salmon have played a crucial part in the culture of the Pacific Northwest. Native American culture has been influenced and built around salmon. Today, salmon populations are at an all-time low and populations are still plummeting. Many subspecies have gone extinct. Throughout the next several pages, I am going to explore what salmon are, how they have been used, what led to their decline, what…

Japan has the largest seafood market in the world. Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market is the largest fish market in japan and is a billion-dollar industry. In the CBS News article, “A Tour of Tokyo's Largest fish market”, the author states, “[The] island nation of Japan has less than two percent of the world's population, but consumes 10 percent of the world's fish.” Japan consumes a lot of fish because logically they are an island surrounded by water. Many nations are accused of overfishing, but…

Clearwater Seafood’s was founded in 1976 which is located in Nova Scotia. Clearwater harvested wild fish and shellfish which include lobster, shrimp, and clams and processed them by freezing packaging and other techniques. There products are high quality because they use storage techniques and have a good processing system. Clearwater want customers to associate their products with quality, taste, eating experience that’s why they sell their product to higher-end retails and restaurants. One of…

Atlantic salmon in all its developmental stages also allows it to successfully adapt to these two environments. Generally in the fresh water phase (and this encompasses all the stages prior to smolting), young salmon eat insects, invertebrates and plankton, while adult salmons in salt water eat other fish, squid, eels, and shrimp (Quinn, 2005). This makes the structure of the mouth of the salmon develop differently at each stage to parallel their diet. In stages before smolting salmon usually…

Dr. Matthew Ogburn focused his research on two kinds of river herrings, the Alewife and the Blueback Herring. The present research concentrates mainly on this species as it has drastically suffered a decline in existence as well as becoming endangered species. Thus, for this reason they are the module species in this investigation. River Herrings are known species to spawn in fresh water but live most of their lives in the ocean. They are also known to migrate between freshwater and ocean water…

Length could be 6-10 feet Weighs about 1500lbs Can dive 4000 feet below Able to swim long distances Countercurrent Exchange - blood vessel that helps them to stay in a certain temperature in the water gives them advantage to hunt for food. 3 types: Atlantic bluefin tuna Pacific bluefin tuna Southern bluefin tunaAtlantic bluefin: found in Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Pacific bluefin: found in the Pacific Ocean Food: They eat anything that is small such as zooplankton when they are young. The…