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Europe does not have wild salmon and hasnt for a century
This is false: wild Atlantic salmon still exist in Europe today, including in thousands of rivers from Portugal to Arctic Russia.
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Official salmon-conservation sources directly contradict this. NASCO's Wild Atlantic Salmon Atlas says it contains information on wild Atlantic salmon populations in almost 2,500 rivers across the North Atlantic, from Portugal to Arctic Russia in the east. NASCO's companion "Salmon in Rivers" page says 2,332 rivers were reported on for 2024 and gives current risk categories for those wild salmon stocks.
NOAA likewise states that Atlantic salmon have European populations and that these fish are found in the waters of Europe and Russia today. In other words, Europe plainly still has wild salmon populations now; they have not been absent for "a century." Some European stocks are depleted or at risk, but that is very different from claiming Europe has no wild salmon at all.
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- NASCO Wild Atlantic Salmon Atlas - NASCO
NASCO's Wild Atlantic Salmon Atlas is a new, interactive map which gives information on wild Atlantic salmon populations in almost 2,500 rivers across the North Atlantic, from Portugal to Arctic Russia in the east and from New England to Ungava Bay in the west.
- Salmon in Rivers - NASCO
In total, 2,332 rivers were reported on for 2024... Based on the most recent information, provided by Parties and jurisdictions in 2024, the salmon stocks in approximately 37% of these rivers have been assessed as being at high risk...
- Atlantic Salmon | NOAA Fisheries
There are three groups of Atlantic salmon: North American, European, and Baltic. These groups are found in the waters of North America, Iceland, Greenland, Europe, and Russia.
Vast majoroty of the world supply of wild (aka good) salmon comes from US, distant 2nd and 3rd is russia and Canada
Official fisheries data do not show the U.S. supplying a vast majority of wild salmon; Russia is often comparable to or larger than the U.S. in wild salmon catch.
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This overstates the U.S. share by a lot. In NOAA's official global salmon-catch table, the U.S. share of global salmon catch was 32%, 43%, 37%, 47%, and 30% from 2012–2016, while the Russian Federation's share was 50%, 38%, 40%, 36%, and 53% in those same years. That means the U.S. was not the "vast majority" source of the world's wild salmon, and Russia was not a "distant 2nd"—Russia was ahead of the U.S. in several years.
More recent official figures point the same way. A 2026 Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife briefing, summarizing preliminary 2024 commercial salmon catches in NPAFC countries, reported Russia at 56% of the total and the USA at 37%. So the basic ranking in the post is backwards for recent Pacific catches as well.
("Good" is subjective, so this correction is only about the factual claim on where the world's wild salmon supply comes from.)
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- Seafood Category Profile (NOAA / Marine Fisheries Review)
Table 11—U.S. salmon trade and global market data... Global Salmon Catch K mt 901.5 1,118.1 877.2 1,023.3 843.5. U.S. Share of Global Catch 32% 43% 37% 47% 30%. Russian Federation Share of Global Catch 50% 38% 40% 36% 53%.
- NPAFC briefing final (Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife PDF)
Preliminary 2024 commercial salmon catches in NPAFC ... Russia ... Total 158.795 ... 56% ... USA ... Total 106.480 ... 37% ... Canada ... Total 2.511 ... <1%.