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Coho Salmon

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SEAFOODRATINGMARKET NAMESWHERE CAUGHTHOW CAUGHT
Atlantic Salmon Avoid: Avoid these products for now. These fish come from sources that are overfished or fished or farmed in ways that harm the environment. Farmed Salmon, Sake Worldwide Farmed
Coho Salmon Best Choice: These fish are abundant, well managed and fished or farmed in environmentally friendly ways. Sake, Silver U.S. Farmed in Tank Systems
Coho Salmon Good Alternative: These are good alternatives to the best choices column. There are some concerns with how they are fished or farmed – or with the health of their habitats due to other human impacts. Sake, Silver British Columbia Wild-caught
Salmon Good Alternative: These are good alternatives to the best choices column. There are some concerns with how they are fished or farmed – or with the health of their habitats due to other human impacts. Pink, Sockeye Fraser River, Washington, Reefnet
Salmon Best Choice: These fish are abundant, well managed and fished or farmed in environmentally friendly ways. Sockeye Fraser River (early Summer-run), Washington Reefnet
Salmon Best Choice: These fish are abundant, well managed and fished or farmed in environmentally friendly ways. Chinook, Coho, Chum, Keta, King, Pink, Red, Silver, Sockeye, Sake Alaska Drift Gillnet, Purse Seine, Troll
Salmon Good Alternative: These are good alternatives to the best choices column. There are some concerns with how they are fished or farmed – or with the health of their habitats due to other human impacts. Chinook, Coho, Chum, Keta, King, Pink, Red, Silver, Sockeye, Sake California, Oregon, Washington Drift Gillnet, Purse Seine, Troll
Salmon Roe Best Choice: These fish are abundant, well managed and fished or farmed in environmentally friendly ways. Ikura Alaska Drift Gillnet, Purse Seine, Troll


Coho Salmon, British Columbia

Many populations of Pacific salmon have declined dramatically. Though many fisheries catch fish from endangered, threatened or depleted populations, the British Columbia coho fishery has reduced impacts on these vulnerable populations.

Consumer Note

Buyer beware! Different species of salmon are sold under many names - and several are available from farmed and wild sources. Use our recommendations to find the "Best Choices." Salmon is known as sake when prepared for sushi.

Summary

Salmon populations have declined dramatically due to habitat loss, climatic shifts, historic overfishing and other factors. Salmon are born in freshwater and then migrate to the ocean where they grow and mature before returning to their birthplace to spawn. When freshwater rivers and streams are damaged or destroyed through dam construction, water diversions, deforestation and urban development, salmon are impacted.

Many populations of wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest are endangered, threatened or depleted. Salmon from these populations mix with salmon from more abundant populations in the ocean, making it difficult for fisheries to target only the healthy salmon. However, the coho fishery in B.C. takes action to limit its catch of endangered, threatened or depleted populations.

Coho salmon from British Columbia are a "Good Alternative."

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