Salmo salar Linnaeus 1758

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Salmoniformes; Salmonidae; Salmo; Salmo salar; Yukon; Bering Sea; Milton; Atlantic salmon; Beaufort Sea; North Atlantic; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5601581; https://zenodo.org/record/5601581

** Salmo salar Linnaeus, 1758. Atlantic Salmon . To 150 cm (59.1 in) TL (Coad 1995). Native to both sides of North Atlantic Ocean; introduced via net-pen farming to Washington and British Columbia in the 1980s (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Escapees recorded and widespread from Puget Sound (Wayne Palsson, pers. comm. to M.L.) northward to south-eastern Alaska (Wing et al. 1992) to Bering Sea near Pribilof Islands (Brodeur and Busby 1998). Natural reproduction of Salmo salar in the Tsitika River, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, has been documented (Volpe et al. 2000). Anadromous. : Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Coad, B. W. (1995) Encyclopedia of Canadian Fishes. Canadian Museum of Nature and Canadian Sportfishing Productions Inc., Waterdown.", "Wing, B. L., Guthrie III, C. M. & Gharrett, A. J. (1992) Atlantic salmon in marine waters of southeastern Alaska. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 121, 814 - 818.", "Brodeur, R. D. & Busby, M. S. (1998) Occurrence of an Atlantic salmon Salmo salar in the Bering Sea. Alaska Fisheries Research Bulletin, 5, 64 - 66.", "Volpe, J. P., Taylor, E. B., Rimmer, D. W. & Glickman, B. W. (2000) Evidence of natural reproduction of aquaculture-escaped Atlantic salmon in a coastal British Columbia River. Conservation Biology, 14, 899 - 903. https: // doi. org / 10.1046 / j. 1523 - 1739.2000.99194. x"]}