Trace Elements Content in the Pink Salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha Walbaum, 1792) from Sakhalin-Kuril Region

Abstract Excerpt:
The Sakhalin-Kuril region (SKR) is one of the main areas of catch of Pacific salmon in the Far East of Russia. The leading fishing facilities are pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) and chum salmon (O. keta). In 2016, the catch of these species in the SKR amounted to 105.4 thousand metric tons (74 thousand metric tons of pink salmon and 31.4 thousand metric tons of chum salmon), which was almost one quarter of the production of these salmon in the Far East of Russia. The total capacity of fish-breeding enterprises at the end of 2015 amounted to 956.5 million salmon fry (Report 2016). Most of the plants in the SKR are located in the southern part of Sakhalin and in the Central part of the Iturup Island, on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk.