There are various types of salmon. Many folks mention seven main types. Between them are one Atlantic and six Pacific.
You find also six different kinds, that belong because of its look, feel, make-up and greasy content. The Atlantic salmon forms its own group with only one species. The Pacific group includes six: sockeye, or red salmon; king, or chinook; coho, or silver; pink, or humpy; keta, or dog salmon; and steelhead, that is a seagoing rainbow trout.
Types of Salmon
Other sources talk about five species of wild Pacific salmon. They are King, Sockeye, Coho, Keta and Pink. The king is the biggest and commonly reach 25-50 pounds, although the record copy weighed 100 pounds.
King salmon you also know as Chinook. The greasy content makes the taste of salmon: the fatter, the more delicious it is. Red salmon have very high fat.
Pink salmon values less for business than others. Here the reasons: it is plentiful, stay small and have little oil. You harvest it a lot for preserve, mess up or make in nuggets and ready dishes.
Salmon alters color when it prepares to migrate up river to its ancestors breeding places. When they are silver, you hardly tell man and woman apart, but both become red while spawning. At men after spawning you easily notice big hooked jaws, called kypes.
Identify can be hard. For instance, coho in breeding color do not look like typical saltwater coho. Atlantic salmon you well protect, because you overfished it since the 1940s and it yet shows on the list of protected species.
It can reach four feet of length.
Salmon stores much protein. One ration weighs 2 until 3 ounces. Steak from salmon usually has 4 until 6 ounces, so two rations.
Other way to measure is a ration big as a deck of cards either 3.5 ounces. For round of 500 grams is enough for until 4 people, while 1 kg feeds 5 until 6. Most salmon rounds serve for three or four people.
The amount depends on the fish species.