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Red fish spawns chum salmon only once in a lifetime

Fish chum - is a passing fish of the family of salmonids. In Russia, in terms of catch volumes, it is only slightly inferior to pink salmon. In 2009, more than 90,000 tons were caught by the industrial method of this fish. He lives in the northern waters of the Pacific for 3 to 5 years, heats meat and fat, then enters the rivers and rises to the birthplace, overcoming up to 2000 km, even jumping over rapids and waterfalls several meters high. How this fish finds a place of birth - scientists have not yet figured out. Some believe that she remembers the "smell of the house." Others think that they remember the taste of the brook water, in which it hatched from the eggs. Still others assume that it is guided by a magnetic field.

The fish of the chum salmon is going to spawn late in the autumn and it happens that the eggs are under the ice of the already frozen river. In fresh water nothing eats, but consumes fat first from the fat fin - a fat-filled leather build-up near the tail, and then from the body itself. Before spawning, it is so thin that it is suitable only for fish meal or canned food. If at the entrance to the river its fat content is from 9 to 11%, then after spawning - less than 0,2 - 0,5%. In addition, meat in this life stage in the chum becomes flabby. Therefore, it is tasty when caught in the sea or in the coastal parts of the rivers at the beginning of the course.

Many representatives of the salmon family have two forms of existence: a passageway and a residential one. For example, fish sockeye forms and a continuous form, and residential. Residential formed in isolated lakes and is called kokani. Steelhead salmon has both a walk-through and a residential form, like a stream and a lake trout.

Fish chum is a checkpoint, because all her life she spends in the sea, and in adulthood "passes" into the rivers for spawning. It refers to the salmon species of the Pacific Ocean, which die after spawning. Why are they dying? There are several versions. The first. How to her, who lived in the sea and fed on plankton, crayfish and small marine fish, to feed themselves in the river with worms, snails, crayfish, freshwater fishes? The second. Sea fish, having gone a long way without food, spun out, has no more strength. Therefore, having given offspring, completes the earthly existence. There are other versions, but they are not proven to this day.

On the special properties of red caviar, which is given by fish, chum salmon and other salmon, people on both coasts of the Pacific Ocean know both humans and animals, including bears: our brown bears, and black Alaskan and Kodiak grizzly giants, and Japanese - Black and brown. Salmon spawns go to spawn in autumn, when bears make their fat reserves for the winter. The best thing for this is the red fish. Therefore, the bears on the rivers draw their paws, going in huge quantities.

With an abundance of fish, like real gourmets, they eat caviar and head, and the rest is thrown ashore. In the beginning of the 20th century, the famous explorer of the Ussuri region, V.K. Arsenyev and his equally famous guide Dersu Uzala, escaped from starvation by a bear. This is reported in different ways on the Internet. But VK Arsenyev himself wrote that they ate not "bearish scraps", but full parts of carcasses.

Bears do not just prefer caviar. They feel with an animal instinct that it contains up to 20% of proteins and virtually no carbohydrates. And vitamins are difficult to re-read. The scientists found that in the caviar and in the meat of the chum salmon they contain: retinol, folic and ascorbic acid, thiamin, riboflavin, calciferol, as well as macro- and microelements: potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, calcium, etc. It is interesting that thiamin is a protector from toxic The effects of alcohol and tobacco. If such a fish is regularly present in your menu, then expensive vitamins will not be needed. It has the most complete composition of those substances that are necessary for the normal life of living organisms. And in caviar they are even greater.

What a fish it is!

A photo of a man with a catch: a chum caught in Alaska during a course to spawn and weighs 15 kg.

The woman in the photo has a silver chum (sea form of chum), caught there in the coastal zone of the sea, weighs 13.5 kg.

Any kind of salmon caught in the river in Kamchatka, Chukotka, Kola Peninsula, Lake Ladoga or Onega is truly priceless. Well, you can buy fish, chilled or frozen, in the supermarket. The price for ketu ranges from 50 to 75 - 80 rubles / kg.

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