Salmon tempura

On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across salmon tempura the article title. This article is about a particular kind of fish. For the food, see Salmon as food.

Salmon are important food fish and are intensively farmed in many parts of the world, with Norway being the world’s largest producer of farmed salmon, followed by Chile. Anglo-Norman:saumon, from Old French: saumon, from Latin: salmō. The unpronounced “l” absent from Middle English was later added as a Latinisation to make the word closer to its Latin root. The term “salmon” comes from the Latin salmo, which in turn might have originated from salire, meaning “to leap”. The seven commercially important species of salmon occur in two genera. Both the Salmo and Oncorhynchus genera also contain a number of species referred to as trout.

Within Salmo, additional minor taxa have been called salmon in English, i. Also, there are several other species which are not true salmon, as in the above list but have common names which refer to them as being salmon. Eosalmo driftwoodensis, the oldest known Salmoninae fish in the fossil record, helps scientists figure how the different species of salmon diverged from a common ancestor. United States as king salmon or blackmouth salmon, and as spring salmon in British Columbia. Pacific Ocean in Japan, Korea, and Russia. Alaska, are found in the western Pacific from Lena River in Siberia to Korea, found throughout northern Pacific, and in the eastern Pacific from the Mackenzie River in Canada to northern California, usually in shorter coastal streams.