Aquaculture: More Info Wild Atlantic Salmon The wild Atlantic
salmon travels throughout the North Atlantic Ocean. It's an
anadromous fish - spawning in fresh water but spending much of
its life at sea. The Atlantic salmon's range historically
spanned both sides of the North Atlantic from northern Quebec to
Lake Ontario and southward to New England in North America, and
from Russia's White Sea to Portugal on the European coast.
Although many of the Atlantic salmon's runs are now reduced or
extinct, it can still be found in the rivers of Ireland, Great
Britain, Canada, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway, Sweden,
Finland, Russia, France, Spain, Canada and Maine. A wild
Atlantic salmon undergoes many changes during its life. Pea-
sized orange eggs are deposited in riverbeds in autumn. Early
the next spring, thousands of tiny Atlantic salmon alevin
emerge. Less than an inch long, these alevin live off an
attached yolk sac and hide from predators in the gravel of the
streambed. When the yolk sac is nearly gone, the