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However, the tonnage and relative price of the salmon market makes salmon the most valuable food item in the United Kingdom that is exported and which supports a network of jobs in rural areas. [37] Most salmon farming in England is at designated hatcheries which then release the juvenile fish (smolts) into designated salmon rivers. [38] [39]
Countries by seafood consumption per capita; Rank Country Consumption in kg/person (2020) 1 Maldives: 87.30 2 Iceland: 84.30 3 Macau: 70.26 4 Kiribati: 69.22 5 Hong Kong: 65.79 6 Portugal: 59.36 7 Antigua and Barbuda: 57.12 8 South Korea: 54.66 9 Malaysia: 53.33 10 Seychelles: 52.89 11 Norway: 50.57 12 Federated States of Micronesia: 48.61 13 Japan
On a dry-dry basis, 2–4 kg of wild-caught fish are needed to produce 1 kg of salmon. [23] The ratio may be reduced if non-fish sources are added. [20] Wild salmon require about 10 kg of forage fish to produce 1 kg of salmon, as part of the normal trophic level energy transfer. The difference between the two numbers is related to farmed salmon ...
Chinook salmon is the largest of all Pacific salmon, frequently exceeding 6 ft (1.8 m) and 14 kg (30 lb). [45] The name tyee is also used in British Columbia to refer to Chinook salmon over 30 pounds and in the Columbia River watershed, especially large Chinooks were once referred to as June hogs.
Salmon and salmon roe have only recently come into use in making sashimi (raw fish) and sushi, with the introduction of parasite-free Norwegian salmon in the late 1980s. [10] Ordinary types of cooked salmon contain 500–1,500 mg DHA and 300–1,000 mg EPA (two similar species of fatty acids) per 100 grams [11]
Coho salmon average 20 to 28 inches (50.8 to 71 cm) and 7 to 11 pounds (3.2 to 5.0 kg), occasionally reaching up to 36 pounds (16 kg). [4] Size can vary depending on age and geographic location. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Males tend to be slightly larger than females. [ 4 ]
Salmon farmers (sellers of farmed salmon) and processors (buyers of salmon) are examples of entities that use futures contracts for risk management of salmon spot price risk. The Fish Pool market caters to a variety of participants, including salmon producers, processors, traders, exporters, and importers.
An Atlantic salmon netted in 1960 in Scotland, in the estuary of the river Hope, weighed 49.44 kg (109.0 lb), the heaviest recorded in all available literature. Another netted in 1925 in Norway measured 160.65 cm (63.25 in) in length, the longest Atlantic salmon on record.