The effect of four cooking methods was evaluated for proximate composition, fatty acid, calcium, iron, and zinc content in salmon and Chilean jack mackerel. The moisture content of steamed salmon decreased (64.94%) compared to the control (68.05%); a significant decrease was observed in Chilean jack mackerel in all the treatments when compared to the control (75.37%). Protein content in both sa...

Predation during early life history is an important component of fitness in salmonids. Farmed Atlantic salmon display lower survival in the wild in comparison to wild salmon; however, the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. Salmon eggs from 69 families of farmed, hybrid and wild parentage were planted into a river. Following swim-up, 760 brown trout predators were non-lethally sampled. Of the...

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) made transgenic for growth hormone (GH) and non-transgenic salmon were sampled at 4 and 7 months of age to estimate myogenic factors, satellite cell proliferation and metabolic enzyme activities. The growth rate of 4 month old transgenic salmon was higher than that of non-transgenic salmon. Myosatellite cell (MC) proliferation rates were higher in cells isolated fr...

Because ivermectin (22,23-Dihydroavermectin B,) has been proposed as an oral treatment against sea lice infections of farmed salmonids, we investigated the toxicity and pathological effects of various doses of ivermectin administered orally every second day to steelhead trout Oncorhynchus mykiss, coho salmon Oncorhynchus kjsutch, chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha and Atlantic salmon Salmo...

Diets containing coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch Walbaum) from the Pacific Ocean or from Lakes Erie, Michigan, and Ontario [containing a gradation from low to high of halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons, (HAHs)] were fed to C57B1/6 and DBA/2 mice. Following a 4-month dietary exposure to Lake Ontario salmon, both strains of mice demonstrated hepatomegaly. The ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (ERR) e...

Salmon have an amazing ability to migrate thousands kilometers from the open ocean to their natal stream for reproduction after several years of oceanic feeding migration. It is now widely accepted that some specific factors of the natal stream are imprinted to particular nervous systems of juvenile salmon during downstream migration, and that adult salmon evoke these factors to recognize the n...

The operation of the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) has negatively affected threatened and endangered salmonid populations in the Pacific Northwest. Barging Snake River spring Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha through the FCRPS is one effort to mitigate the effect of the hydrosystem on juvenile salmon out-migration. However, little is known about the occurrence and transmissi...

Predator effects on prey populations are determined by the number of prey consumed and effects on the traits of surviving prey. Yet, effects of predators on prey traits are rarely evaluated in field studies. We measured the effects of predators on energetic traits (consumption and growth rates) of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in a large-scale field study. Salmon fry were released at 1...

Understanding how abundance regulates the effects of organisms on their ecosystems remains a critical goal of ecology, especially for understanding inter-ecosystem transfers of energy and nutrients. Here we examined how territoriality and nest-digging by anadromous salmon mediate trophic subsidies to stream fishes. Salmon eggs become available for consumption primarily by the digging of salmon ...

At the present time, the main pink salmon and sockeye salmon stocks are in good condition on the Russian far east. However, pink stocks have tended to decrease in recent years. Wild stocks of chum salmon are currently in poor condition in many far-eastern regions, except for those of the north Okhotsk Sea coast and Okhotsk region. We do not expect a noticeable increase in the near future. There...