Salmon

**Salmon** () adalah nama biasa bagi beberapa spesies ikan dari keluarga Salmonidae. Beberapa ikan lain di dalam keluarga ini dipanggil ''trout''; perbezaannya adalah disebabkan jalan perpindahan  ikan salmon dibandingkan dengan sikap ikan *trout* yang kekal bertempat, satu perbezaan yang betul untuk genus Salmo. Ikan ini hidup dalam lautan-lautan Atlantik (satu spesies migrasi Salmo salar) dan Lautan Pasifik selain juga di Tasik-Tasik Besar benua Amerika Utara (kira-kira sedozen spesies dari genus Oncorhynchus) sejauh *[[:en:Oncorhynchus_masou|Oncorhynchus masou]]* di pedalaman tengah pulau Taiwan iaitu satu-satunya spesies diketahui orang serumpun Austronesia sendiri (yakni *bunban* atau *bngbang* oleh orang Tayal).

Secara tipikalnya, salmon adalah anadromos: ia menetas di air tawar, berpindah ke laut, kemudian kembali semula ke air tawar untuk membiak. Walau bagaimanapun, terdapat spesies yang hanya mampu hidup di habitat air tawar. Ia kemungkinan besar disebabkan oleh perternakan spesies-spesied tertentu ikan salmon. Cerita rakyat membuktikan bahawa salmon akan kembali ke lokasi sebenar di mana ia ditetaskan, kajian telah membuktikan kebenaran dakwaan ini, akan tetapi sifat bagaimana memori ikan ini berfungsi telah menjadi perdebatan panjang.

## Rujukan

## Pautan luar

*University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections&nbsp;– Salmon Collection A collection of documents describing salmon of the Pacific Northwest.
*''Salmon-omics: Effect of Pacific Decadal Oscillation on Alaskan Chinook Harvests and Market Price'' , Kevin Ho, Columbia University, 2005.
*Salmon Nation A movement to create a bioregional community, based on the historic spawning area of Pacific salmon (CA to AK).
*Genetic Status of Atlantic Salmon in Maine: Interim Report (2002) online book
*The Distribution of Pacific Salmon (''Oncorhynchus'' spp.) in the Canadian Western Arctic, by S. A. Stephenson
*Watch ''Plea for the Wanderer'', an NFB documentary on West Coast salmon

## Bacaan lanjut
**Atlas of Pacific Salmon*, Xanthippe Augerot and the State of the Salmon Consortium, University of California Press, 2005, hardcover, 152 pages, ISBN 0-520-24504-0
**Making Salmon:  An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis*, Joseph E. Taylor III, University of Washington Press, 1999, 488 pages, ISBN 0-295-98114-8
**Trout and Salmon of North America*, Robert J. Behnke, Illustrated by Joseph R. Tomelleri, The Free Press, 2002, hardcover, 359 pages, ISBN 0-7432-2220-2
**Come back, salmon*, By Molly Cone, Sierra Club Books, 48 pages, ISBN 0-87156-572-2 - A book for juveniles describes the restoration of 'Pigeon Creek'.
**The salmon: their fight for survival*, By Anthony Netboy, 1973, Houghton Mifflin Co., 613 pages, ISBN 0-395-14013-7
**A River Lost*, by Blaine Harden, 1996, WW Norton Co., 255 pages, ISBN 0-393-31690-4. (Historical view of the Columbia River system).
**River of Life, Channel of Death*, by Keith C. Peterson, 1995, Confluence Press, 306 pages, ISBN 978-0870714962.  (Fish and dams on the Lower Snake river.)
**Salmon*, by Dr Peter Coates, 2006, ISBN 1861892950
*NEWS January 31, 2007: U.S. Orders Modification of Klamath River - Dams Removal May Prove More Cost-Effective for allowing the passage of Salmon
* Salmon age and sex composition and mean lengths for the Yukon River area, 2004 / by Shawna Karpovich and Larry DuBois. Hosted by Alaska State Publications Program.
*Trading Tails: Linkages Between Russian Salmon Fisheries and East Asian Markets. Shelley Clarke. (November 2007). 120pp. ISBN 978-1-85850-230-4.
**The Salmons Tale* one of the twelve Ionan Tales by Jim MacCool