Salmo salar Linnaeus, 1758

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** 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.