** Salmo salar Linnaeus, 1758 .

Atlantic Salmon. To 150 cm (59.1 in) TL (Coad 1995). Native to both sides of North Atlantic Ocean; introduced via net-pen farming to Washington and British Columbia in the 1980s (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Escapees recorded and widespread from Puget Sound (Wayne Palsson, pers. comm. to M.L.) northward to south-eastern Alaska (Wing et al. 1992) to Bering Sea near Pribilof Islands (Brodeur and Busby 1998). Natural reproduction of Salmo salar in the Tsitika River, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, has been documented (Volpe et al. 2000). Anadromous.