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Salmon
Order: Salmoniformes
The appearance of salmon varies greatly from species to species.
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SalmonRelated Category: Vertebrate Zoology (sm´n), member of the Salmonidae, a family of marine fish that spawn in freshwater, including the salmons, the trouts, and the chars.
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Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the family are called trout. Salmon live in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as the Great Lakes and other land locked lakes.
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Salmonella bacteria are easily spread from reptiles to humans. For Salmonella to spread from reptiles to humans, the bacteria must be ingested.
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Salmon as food
Salmon is a popular food. Consuming salmon is considered to be reasonably healthy due to the fish's high protein and low fat levels and to its high Omega-3 fatty acids content.
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Atlantic salmon are found in the Atlantic Ocean near the north-eastern coast of North America, and near Greenland, Ic eland and the western coast of Europe. Adults migrate up rivers and streams to spawn. There are also landlocked populations.
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Salmon have been reared in hatcheries for decades to provide smolts for river stocking programs. Today they are commercially farmed in large ocean pens, a rapidly growing industry in Atlantic Canada.
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Salmon-wedding Brook-runs with clear become as spawn-places and don't prefer to fast flowing water as well as pebbly underground. Through powerful tail-hits, the female causes a ground-deepening of plentiful 1,50 m of diameter.
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Salmon:
Wisdom
In the Celtic tradition the salmon is the oldest and wisest of animals. Legendary salmon lived in a sacred well which was the source of the Boyne, a river running past ancient Druid temples.
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Salmon
Kings of the Kenai Alaska's Salmon Records (Article) by Lou Bignami
Murphy Meets & Beats the Salmon Seeker Murphy's alive and aquatic by John L. Beath ...
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Salmon (European & Pacific)
Mankind's use of salmon has been dated back to the Palaeolithic period. At one time, it was so common it used as pig-swill! ...
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Salmon Features
Kamchatka Salmon
Russia's remote Kamchatka Peninsula has some of the richest salmon runs in the Pacific, sustaining animals and communities. Now the fish need help.
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Chinook Salmon Characteristics The Chinook is the largest of the salmon group with adults averaging 36 inches in length and some growing up to 56 inches. Their average weight is 10 to 50 pounds, though the larger fish can reach around 100 pounds.
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Atlantic salmon can be seen in the rivers of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick that drain into the Minas Basin and Chignecto Bay. After they go to sea, they remain in the Bay of Fundy. Likes to Hang Out: ...
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Like their name implies, Brazilian salmon pink birdeaters are (partially) pink, with long salmon-colored hairs sticking out from their legs, abdomens and mouthparts. Except for the pink patches, these tarantulas are mostly dark brown.
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Salmon are tertiary consumers. This means they eat animals that eat animals that eat primary producers (phytoplankton). Confusing? Salmon are hatched in fresh water and swim out to sea when they are big enough to fend for themselves.
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Salmonella: Then and Now Aerobic bacterial oral flora of garter snakes If you touch a turtle, wash your hands! Interview with the CDC: Dr. Jonathan Mirmen Isolation of Salmonella strains from reptile faeces and comparison of different culture media ...
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Salmon and trout support a major commercial and recreational coldwater fisheries. The commercial high-seas fishery for salmon employs thousands of fisherpeople and is a huge industry.
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Salmon are probably the best known odor-based migrant. Studies indicate that young salmon are somehow "imprinted" with the odor of their birth stream.
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SALMONIFORMES whitefishes, graylings, salmons, trouts, chars STOMIIFORMES bristlemouths, marine hatchetfishes, lightfishes, viperfishes, saly dragonfishes, snaggletoothes, scaleless black dragonfishes, loosejaws, black dragonfishes ...
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Salmonellosis, tuberculosis and strep throat are infections caused by different kinds of bacteria.
A bacterium is a single-celled microorganism.
Its genes float free in the liquid inside itself (the cytoplasm).
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Salmon, A., R. Green. 1982. Environmental Determinants of Unionid Clam Distribution in the Middle Thames River. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 61: 832-838.
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Food: Salmon, anchovy, capelin and other inshore fish, as well as squid and shrimp. Bottle nosed dolphins are commonly sighted around the British Isles, where they are seen mainly in seas to the south and west.
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Family: Salmonidae Genus: Oncorhynchus Find out more about the Rainbow Trout from: ...
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Atlantic Salmon (Average Size 16 - 36 inches) Also called the Landlocked Salmon. The young salmon live in freshwater for up to 3 years before entering the ocean.
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Migrating salmon must always run the gauntlet of the waiting bears. Moth-eating grizzlies Planet Earth ...
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Moluccan ( Salmon Crested) Cockatoos Eyes Male: darkbrown/black, Female: deep brown to burgundy red (when mature). A small flashlight helps in determining eye color. Palm Cockatoos ...
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The Atlantic Salmon begins its life in a river and migrates downstream to the ocean. After several years, it heads back upstream to lay eggs and begin the cycle all over again.
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Family Name: Salmonidae
Length: normally 20-23 inches (can reach 36 inches)
Weight: can reach 19 lbs ...
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Dead red meat, salmon; does not eat most birds or squirrels. Group of 4 known to drag 100 +-pound body of grizzly 200 yards. CONSERVATION: Winter resident. Endangered Species; only recently returned to the wild.
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Omnivore. Fish (salmon is a favorite), mammals, grass and other plants.
Predators and Threats
Humans.
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A Beaked Salmon trawled on the NORFANZ expedition A Bean's Bigscale trawled at south of Norfolk Island A Bearded Leatherjacket caught at Coolongolook River A Beardfish trawled off New South Wales A Beardie at Jervis Bay ...
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4 million to squeeze the world's largest colony of salmon-eating Caspian terns off a Columbia River island so they will establish new nesting areas as far away as San Fran cisco Bay. (more) ...
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Salmonellosis: A rare pet disease which comes from wild rodents, dirty water, or spoiled foods. Salmonellosis is an intestinal tract infection that will require veterinarian help.
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Rainbow trout have a characteristic salmon-like shape. Dark spots are clearly visible on the tail fin, which is slightly forked. The anal fin has 10-12 rays. The back is usually a dark olive color, shading to silvery white on the underside.
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Black Phantom Tetra (Megalamphedus megalopterus) Characidae, Blind Cave Tetra (Astyanax mixicanus), Bloater (Corgonus hoyi), Blue Gourami (Trichogaster tricopterus), Boeseman's Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia boesemani), Brown Trout, Chinook Salmon, ...
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On the belly of the specimen which had recently shed it's skin were tints of salmon color or brick red! I am not sure I've not got on a new species - if so 'tis _____ . It is common here. Will it not exchange well? I've offered a dime apiece for it.
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station they saw the mountain torrent hurling its foamy waters over the black crags of the rugged ravine, while on wide-spread wings the Great Vulture sailed overhead watching the departure of the travellers, that he might feast on the salmon, ...
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Rather colorful for a pigeon, its sides of its lower neck and breast are a salmon pink with tints of olive here and there. Its gray wings and black bill are rather short.
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Felix, "Beitrage zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Salmoniden," Anat. Hefte Arb. viii. 1897; Amphioxus, p. 333; T. Garbowski, "Amphioxus als Grundlage der Mesodermtheorie," Anal Anz. xiv. (1898), P . 473; R.
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A fishing license and trout and salmon stamp are NOT required for: Residents born before April 1, 1943. However, you should carry your driver's license or other identification to verify your age and residency.
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Thank salmon for the giant bears of Kamchatka. The fat salmon carry helps bears gain up to 400 extra pounds that they need to survive winter. More Americans die each year from bee stings (50 to 100) than from bears (about one every other year).
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It is particularly attached to the vicinity of cascades and falls, being attracted by the dead salmon which strew the shores in such places.
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The birds feast on salmon that have spawned and died. The Squamish River and other rivers of southern British Columbia attract about the same number of Bald Eagles as the Chilkat. Eagle watching is centered in Brackendale, British Columbia.
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--Upper parts, throat, and breast shining black; basal half of the wing-feathers salmon, end half and wing-coverts black; basal two thirds of all but the middle tail-feathers salmon, end third and middle feathers black; ...
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Along with the trout and small salmon they are accused of destroying, such fishes include perch, minnows, eels and other so-called "coarse" fishes that are enemies of trout and salmon.
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Salmon migrating along the coast mostly in July bump into this formation and find the channel too narrow so they detour around the sea mount.
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Bears live solitary lives except during breeding, cub rearing, and in those areas with a super-abundant food supply such as salmon streams.
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Bristol Bay is one of the most productive marine ecosystems in the world, home to the largest wild sockeye salmon runs in the world; important nursery grounds for red king crab and Pacific halibut; ...
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Arctic char, a member of the salmon family, can be found in rivers along the north coast of the Northwest Territories and on the Arctic islands. Char are feisty fighters and commonly range in size from 2.3 to 3.
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The dorsal background color is salmon to pinkish orange with diffused black strokes or spots that may form a reticulated pattern. Older individuals the color becomes a reddish brown to deep purplish brown with little or no pattern.
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Salmon begin their lives in freshwater streams and rivers, migrate to the ocean as adults, then return to the streams to breed. They use their sense of smell to find the exact stream in which they were born.
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Due to its size, the Danube salmon or huchen is without doubt first and foremost among Slovenian trout species. The largest registered huchen catch, a respectable 27 kilograms in 2005, makes it a prime target for huchen fishermen.
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Many diseases, such as salmonella and avian pox, can be transmitted at feeders. Bird feeders should be cleaned at least once a month with either liquid detergent or a 9-to-1 water-bleach solution.
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 See also: Trout, Perch, Herring, Reptile, Diver
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