Atlantic salmon

A salmon (Salmo salar) having silvery or yellowish sides with some black spots on the back, native to northern Atlantic waters and often cultivated in fish farms for food.

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Atlan′tic salm′on

a salmon, Salmo salar, of N coastal Atlantic seas and their freshwater tributaries.

[1900–05]

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Noun	1.	Atlantic salmon - fatty pink flesh of fish from northern coastal Atlantic; usually marketed fresh Salmo salar, Atlantic salmon - found in northern coastal Atlantic waters or tributaries; adults do not die after spawning salmon - flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
	2.	Atlantic salmon - found in northern coastal Atlantic waters or tributaries; adults do not die after spawning Salmo salar salmon - any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn genus Salmo, Salmo - type genus of the Salmonidae: salmon and trout lake salmon, landlocked salmon - Atlantic salmon confined to lakes of New England and southeastern Canada Atlantic salmon - fatty pink flesh of fish from northern coastal Atlantic; usually marketed fresh

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Iceland and other North Atlantic salmon river countries have for many years overcome the river problems through the use of salmon hatcheries to grow on eggs and sperm stripped from native river salmon.

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Last week the Atlantic Salmon Trust completed the first stage of its pioneering Missing Salmon Project by tagging 850 smolts in the Moray Firth.

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Euan chose to write about the Amazing Atlantic Salmon and its elusiveness, whilst Iona focused on the often misunderstood Brown Hare, entitling her poem "I am not a rabbit!" The talented duo were presented with their prizes at a winners' ceremony at Edinburgh Zoo and received a goody bag full of interesting donations from competition sponsors.

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Adam Russell and Dale Snedden were this week convicted at Stirling Justice of the Peace court for being in possession of Atlantic Salmon eggs and camping without authorisation.

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