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.

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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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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Why salmon turn red?

Salmon flesh is red due to their diet. Salmon gain 99% or more of their body mass in the ocean and the food they eat in the ocean is high in carotenoids (the same pigment that gives carrots color). These pigments are stored in their flesh. Yet another question we ran across in our research …

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Why do salmon release so many egg cells?

Student Example Explanation: “Salmon lay so many eggs because they face a lot of adversity on the journey to becoming adult coho salmon!” Teacher Example Explanation: “Since so many salmon die before reaching spawning adulthood, laying more eggs increases the probability for successful reproduction and a sustaining population of salmon”. Female salmon release orange eggs. …

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