salmon
Salmo salar
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: NT - Near Threatened - close to qualifying for a threatened category in the near future
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Salmoniformes
- Family
- Salmonidae
- Genus
- Salmo
Where to Find
Found in 18 diving areas across 8 countries and 2 regions.
- Bornholm, Denmark - 34 records
- North Sea Coast, Denmark - 14 records
- Silfra & Thingvellir, Iceland - 63 records
- South Coast, Ireland - 1 records
- West Coast, Ireland - 2 records
- Medes Islands, Spain - 53 records
- Baltic Coast, Sweden - 59 records
- West Coast (Gothenburg), Sweden - 53 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 4 records
- Northumberland & Northeast, United Kingdom - 1 records
- Scapa Flow, Orkney, United Kingdom - 3 records
- Scottish East Coast & Borders, United Kingdom - 1 records
- Manitoba & Prairie Lakes, Canada - 2 records
- New Brunswick & Bay of Fundy, Canada - 301 records
- Newfoundland, Canada - 7 records
- Nova Scotia, Canada - 5597 records
- Québec, Canada - 20 records
- New England, United States - 10 records