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  2. Salmon - Wikipedia

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    Wild, self sustaining Pacific salmon populations have been established in New Zealand, Chile, and Argentina. [105] They are highly prized by sport fishers, but others worry about displacing native fish species. [106] Also, and especially in Chile (Aquaculture in Chile), both Atlantic and Pacific salmon are used in net pen farming.

  3. Aquaculture of salmonids - Wikipedia

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    Farmed salmon in open net cages can escape into wild habitats, for example, during storms. An emerging wave in aquaculture is applying the same farming methods used for salmonids to other carnivorous finfish species, such as cod, bluefin tuna, halibut, and snapper. However, this is likely to have the same environmental drawbacks as salmon farming.

  4. Oncorhynchus - Wikipedia

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    Oncorhynchus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae, native to coldwater tributaries of the North Pacific basin. The genus contains twelve extant species, namely six species of Pacific salmon and six species of Pacific trout, all of which are migratory (either anadromous or potamodromous) mid-level predatory fish that display natal homing and ...

  5. List of commercially important fish species - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Salmonidae - Wikipedia

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    Salmonidae (/ s æ l ˈ m ɒ n ɪ d iː /, lit. ' salmon-like ') is a family of ray-finned fish that constitutes the only currently extant family in the order Salmoniformes (/ s æ l ˈ m ɒ n ɪ f ɔːr m iː z /, lit. "salmon-shaped"), consisting of 11 extant genera and over 200 species collectively known as "salmonids" or "salmonoids".

  7. Why Massive Numbers of Farmed Salmon Are Dying - AOL

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    Workers prepare sides of fresh farmed salmon for filleting and packaging in the processing plant at a fish farm operated by Salmar ASA on the island of Froya, Norway, on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014.

  8. Is salmon or tuna healthier? There’s 2 major nutritional ...

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    Pacific salmon are mostly wild caught and include sockeye, coho, pink, chum and king (Chinook) varieties. All Atlantic salmon sold in the U.S. is farmed, per the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

  9. Aquaculture in New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    There are three main species in the New Zealand aquaculture industry: the green-lipped mussel, the Pacific oyster and king salmon. In 2006 these three species generated $357 million in sales. Mussel accounted for 63 percent of this value, Pacific oysters 9 percent and king salmon 28 percent.

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