Origin: The Pacific Northwest coast
Date: From about 15,000 years ago onward
Type: Anadromous fish
There are five species of the salmon: chinook (known as King Salmon and is the largest of the 5 species), sockeye (red salmon), coho, chum (dog salmon), pink salmon (or humpback).
Salmon is such a great delicacy that somewhere in the world someone is eating fermented salmon heads!