Salmon facts for kids

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Atlantischer Lachs
Atlantic salmon
Salmon (breeding color)
Chum Salmon of a breeding season
Salmon- Egg Membranes
Ovary of the Chum Salmon was opened and loosened

Salmon is a kind of teleost fish. There are many different kinds of salmon. Salmon belong to the same family of fish as the trout. Most kinds of salmon live in salt water, or migrate between rivers and the sea. Many people like to eat salmon, so the fish is also grown in fish farms. Usual ways to make food out of salmon are smoking, cold smoking and graving. Salmon are killed by people, other fish and their environment.

Major species

  • Atlantic salmon
  • Australian salmon
  • Chinook salmon
  • Chum salmon
  • Coho salmon
  • Indian Salmon
  • Pink salmon
  • Sockeye salmon

Images for kids

  • Salmo salar (crop)

    Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar

  • Life cycle of Pacific salmon

    Life cycle of Pacific salmon

  • Cub with trophy

    Bear cub with salmon

  • Sockeye salmon jumping over beaver dam Lake Aleknagik, AK Kristina Ramstad 1997

    Sockeye salmon jumping over beaver dam

  • Henneguya salminicola in flesh of coho salmon, BC, Canada

    Henneguya salminicola, a myxozoan parasite commonly found in the flesh of salmonids on the West Coast of Canada, in coho salmon

  • Time series for global capture of true salmon

    Wild fisheries – commercial capture of all true wild salmon species 1950–2010, as reported by the FAO

  • In the net^ - geograph.org.uk - 98595

    Angler and gillie land a salmon, Scotland

  • Time series for global aquaculture of true salmon

    Aquaculture production of all true salmon species 1950–2010, as reported by the FAO

  • Salmon newborn

    Artificially incubated chum salmon

  • Becharof Wilderness Salmon

    Spawning sockeye salmon in Becharof Creek, Becharof Wilderness, Alaska

  • Salmon sashimi

    Salmon sashimi

  • Wenceslas Hollar - Salmon fishing (State 1)

    Seine fishing for salmon – Wenzel Hollar, 1607–1677

  • Scales on the Big Fish - geograph.org.uk - 504156

    Scales on the "Big Fish" or "Salmon of Knowledge" celebrates the return of fish to the River Lagan

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