Salmo salar Linnaeus 1758

** 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...

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Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 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://zenodo.org/record/5601582
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5601582
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Summary:** 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

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