John Westfield

I'm a lifelong cooking enthusiast with a special love for strange and underused ingredients. I hope this blog helps open your mind to more of the wonderful edible treasures around us.

How do salmon get energy?

In their gill epithelial cells, salmon have a special enzyme that hydrolyzes ATP and uses the released energy to actively transport both Na + and Cl – against their concentration gradients. What do salmon feed on? They feed on fish, shrimp, squid and anything they can catch . Most of the smaller salmon are also …

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Why is salmon expensive?

In my opinion, this is the major driving force behind the increase in global salmon prices. Loss of genetic diversity, distance from the catch, overfishing of salmon, atlantic v pacific salmon, and wild v farmed salmon are a few more ideas to examine. Why is salmon so expensive? Salmon is expensive because it is relatively …

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How do salmon camouflage?

Most species of salmon fry have parr marks (bars and spots along their sides) that act as camouflage to help to avoid predators and hide among the cover provided by rocks, stumps, undercut banks and overhanging vegetation. Parr markings vary for fry of different species. As salmon fry grow larger, they move out into more …

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