Salmon

Chinook Salmon The Chinook can grow to the size of a human–more than 100 pounds–and also bears the highest fat content of all the five… Read More »Is Chinook Salmon Good Eating?

The salmon life cycle includes seven stages: egg, alevins, fry, parr, smolt, adult, and kelt. Do all salmon have the same life cycle? Chum may… Read More »How Many Life Cycles Does A Salmon Have?

Chinook salmon are also known as spring salmon in Canada or king salmon in Alaska. They are distinguished by their black gums and by the… Read More »What Is The Difference Between King Salmon And Chinook Salmon?

If the cooked salmon tastes fishy or leaves a slimy feeling in your mouth, it has gone bad and should be immediately thrown out. Why… Read More »Why Does My Cooked Salmon Taste Fishy?

Atlantic salmon generally mate with their own species, but the fish is capable of cross-breeding with the closely related brown trout. Can salmon species cross… Read More »Can Salmon Cross Breed?

5 Types of Salmon Chum is your thumb, Sockeye is your index finger (imagine poking someone’s eye out), King is your middle finger, Silver is… Read More »How Do You Remember 5 Types Of Salmon?

Its common name is derived from the Chinookan peoples. Other vernacular names for the species include king salmon, Quinnat salmon, Tsumen, spring salmon, chrome hog,… Read More »Is Spring Salmon The Same As Chinook?

There are seven species of Pacific salmon. Five of them occur in North American waters: chinook, coho, chum, chinook, and chinook. Masu and amago salmon… Read More »What Are The 7 Species Of Salmon?

Some species of salmon, sea bass and goby are synchronous hermaphrodites. These fish will form spawning pairs. One fish will lay eggs and the other… Read More »Are Salmons Hermaphrodites?

A few females from some Atlantic salmon will make it back to the ocean after breeding, but most of the salmon, including all the males,… Read More »What Happens To Male Salmon?