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.

Are salmon freshwater?

Salmon are intensively farmed in many parts of the world. Typically, salmon are anadromous: they hatch in fresh water, migrate to the ocean, then return to fresh water to reproduce. However, populations of several species are restricted to fresh water throughout their lives. While we were reading we ran into the question “What do salmon …

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Are salmon sharks dangerous?

As with other species from the Lamnidae family, salmon sharks could be potentially dangerous due to their size. Endangerment It is not certain as to what extent the salmon shark must be considered an endangered species. However, their populations could be threatened because they are fished by Japanese longline fishermen in the northern Pacific. With …

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Do salmon migrate upstream?

Young salmon learn the smell of their home stream, possibly even memorizing it at various points along the way, as they migrate toward the ocean. As adults returning to freshwater, when they encounter that familiar smell, it stimulates them to swim upstream . So there may be some “testing of the waters” as salmon migrate …

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What do salmon eat at sea?

When they’re in the ocean, young and adult salmon eat a wide variety of prey, including: Fish such as capelin, Atlantic herring, sand lance, barracudina and lanternfish. Crustaceans such as amphipods and euphausiids or “krill.” Cephalopods like squid and octopus., and polychaete worms. Wild-caught Pacific salmon are typically considered to be the best salmon to …

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Can salmon make you fat?

Yes, salmon is indeed high in fat, but the fact that fish carries is good for the heart and the body in general. “Fatty fish” may sound distasteful to people who want to take control of their weight, but there is certainly nothing wrong with switching fatty fish with fatty beef or fatty pork. The …

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Where do salmon go?

North American Atlantic salmon migrate in the spring from the rivers where they were born. They move into the Labrador Sea for their first summer, autumn, and winter. The following spring they move to the coastal waters of Labrador and the Canadian Arctic, West Greenland, and sometimes to the waters of East Greenland. This begs …

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