Is Salmon Seafood? Understanding Its Classification at a Glance

Salmon is seafood. Salmon belongs to the cold-water fish of high-latitude regions; the farther north the region, the colder the sea waters, and the more fat the salmon has, the more vitality it has, and the more delicious its flesh.

Salmon is also called samon or salmon trout, and is one of the more commonly used fish ingredients in Western cuisine. In the consumer markets of different countries, salmon covers different species: Norwegian salmon is mainly Atlantic salmon, Finnish salmon is mainly farmed large-size red-fleshed rainbow trout, and American salmon is mainly Alaska salmon. Chum salmon generally refers to fish of the genus Oncorhynchus in the family Salmonidae of the order Salmoniformes; there are many species, such as the chum salmon and humpback salmon produced in Northeast China.