Salmonidae

The family includes salmon (both Atlantic and Pacific species), trout (both ocean-going and landlocked), char, graylings, freshwater whitefishes, taimens and lenoks, all coldwater mid-level predatory fish that inhabit the subarctic and cool temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere. The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), whose Latin name became that of its genus Salmo, is also the eponym of the family and order names.

Salmon inhabit the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, as well as freshwater in the Northern Hemisphere, in mid- and northern latitudes. The largest natural salmon spawning grounds are located in Kamchatka, Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands.