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Atlantic salmon meat is a particularly nutritious food and is considered one of the more refined types of fish meat in many cultures. As such it features in numerous popular traditional cuisines and can fetch a higher price than some other fish.
Salmon farmers (sellers of farmed salmon) and processors (buyers of salmon) are examples of entities that use futures contracts for risk management of salmon spot price risk. The Fish Pool market caters to a variety of participants, including salmon producers, processors, traders, exporters, and importers.
The capture of wild Atlantic salmon has always been relatively small, and has declined steadily since 1990. In 2011 only 2,500 tonnes were reported. [12] In contrast, about half of all farmed salmon are Atlantic salmon.
Atlantic salmon Salmo salar: Cultivated 2,066,561 The wild Atlantic salmon fishery is commercially dead; after extensive habitat damage and overfishing, wild fish make up only 0.5% of the Atlantic salmon available in world fish markets. The rest are farmed, predominantly from aquaculture in Norway, Chile, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Faroe Islands ...
Officials counted more than 1,500 of the salmon in the Penobscot River, which is home to the country's largest run of Atlantic salmon, Maine state data show. That is the most since 2011 when ...
In 2017, about 263,000 farmed non-native Atlantic salmon escaped from a net in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break. [ 69 ] Sea lice, particularly Lepeophtheirus salmonis and various Caligus species, including C. clemensi and C. rogercresseyi , can cause deadly infestations of both farm-grown and wild salmon.
The Atlantic salmon and brown trout (Salmo trutta) are widespread species and have been introduced worldwide as farmed food fish or recreational game fish, while most of the other Salmo species are narrowly distributed forms endemic to single watersheds. The name Salmo derives from the Latin salmÅ, meaning salmon.
Salmon is a common food fish classified as an oily fish [1] with a rich content of protein and omega-3 fatty acids. [2] Norway is a major producer of farmed and wild salmon, accounting for more than 50% of global salmon production.