...Fish Tales?? I think not!

A female Atlantic Salmon can lay up to 1,600 eggs per kilogram of her body weight!

• Mature female salmon carry 22% of their body weight in eggs!

• For every million Atlantic Salmon eggs spawned, one albino fish will be produced.

• Salmo salar is one of only 87 species of fish that migrates between fresh and salt water.

• The largest Atlantic Salmon caught in North America weighed 55 pounds!

• Atlantic Salmon will swim up to 2,500 miles to feeding grounds.

• Wild Atlantic salmon lose all their teeth and grow new ones when they return to fresh water from the ocean.

•  Atlantic salmon were one of the earliest known art subjects.

The scales of a salmon can specify the age of the salmon and when and how many times it has migrated.

All interesting facts presented here are those of the Atlantic Salmon Federation (asf.ca).

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