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Is Tuna Salmon? Which one is bigger?

Walter White
2020-08-15 07:15:05
Tuna and salmon are different. They are two different kinds of fish. In terms of classification, tuna belongs to the Scombridae family of Perciformes, while salmon belongs to the Salmonidae family of Salmonids, so they are not the same. Moreover, their habits are different. For example, tuna will live in the ocean all the time, while salmon has the habit of migrating upstream. During the breeding season, they migrate to waterfalls, dams and other waters to spawn.
Is Tuna Salmon? Which one is bigger?

1. is tuna a salmon?

Both tuna and salmon are fish, and they are edible and have certain nutritional value. However, tuna and salmon are not the same fish, and they should not be confused because of their similarities in appearance. In fact, they are different in many ways. For example, tuna is a kind of fish that lives in the ocean, and some tuna are distributed in deeper waters, while salmon is an anadromous fish, which spawns in waterfalls, dams and other waters. Moreover, their meat quality and price differences are relatively large, can not be confused with the two.

2. tuna and salmon which size

As mentioned above, tuna and salmon do not belong to the same kind of fish, they are different in many ways. In addition to the differences in living environment, meat quality and price mentioned above, there are also some differences in their body shape. Tuna itself contains dozens of species, and the differences between these different species of tuna themselves are relatively large. There are fewer varieties of salmon, less than 10.

In comparison, tuna is larger. For example, common tuna species such as "yellow fin tuna" can reach more than 2 meters in length and 100 kilograms in weight. The weight of a common salmon species is only about 6 kilograms, and the difference is relatively large.

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