Amazing journey of a Salmon - In life and death

It is not just the journey that Salmons undertake during their life time but the one that they undergo after their death that is amazing.

Salmons can live in both fresh water and salt water. They are born in freshwater, follow the stream or the river in which they are born all the way to the ocean and live most of their lives there. However during their lifetime they make one or more trips to their birth place to lay eggs. In their journey back to their birth place, they swim against the stream, cross many natural and man made obstacles to reach their spawning grounds. Some Salmons during their life time might travel hundreds or thousands of miles. Talk about swimming against the tide!

However it is Salmon's journey after its death that is not that well chronicled. A typical journey after death of an Atlantic Salmon starts on a trawler that catches it off the coast of Norway and takes it to a port in Norway. There Salmon is frozen and transferred to another vessel which takes them to a much larger port like Humburg or Rotterdam. There they are transferred to another ship and taken to China - mostly likely to Quingdo on Shandong Peninsula, China's fish processing capital. There Salmons are thawed, skinned, deboned and filleted. They are refrozen, packaged, put on another ship and sent to the supermarkets around the world mostly in Europe and North Americas. Two months and a trip around the world after they are caught, the "fresh" fish gets sold, displayed neatly on crushed ice.