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 warm blooded?

A salmon shark’s warm-bloodedness is achieved by countercurrent heat exchange in which heat produced by internal muscle activity is used to warm the oxygenated blood returning from the gills. Salmon sharks benefit from warm-bloodedness and more efficient muscles by being able to reach higher swimming speeds. I discovered they have a special adaptation that allows …

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Does salmon eat krill?

Salmon also ate the reddish swarming krill known as Munida, when these were present. It is significant that sprat, swarming red krill, and juvenile hoki all live off the bottom (ie, are pelagic), and that virtually no bottom dwelling prey were eaten by salmon. One of the next things we wondered was; do salmon eat …

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Can salmon get worms?

It would be shocking to find a worm in your salmon. However, the fact is that some type of parasite can be found in almost every type of food. The worms occasionally seen in salmon are anisakid nematodes that also occur in cod, haddock, fluke, herring, flounder, and monkfish. The CDC states that humans get …

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When do salmon run?

Best time to see salmon run. Salmon spawning season takes place yearly in early to mid-October. However, you’ll see the largest schools of millions of sockeyes in the dominant years only, which occur once in four years. The last dominant year was 2018, and the next one is expected in 2022. During sub-dominant years (2019, …

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