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| The live release rate in Canada increased by 20% , from 36.4% in 1995 to 55.13% in 2004. |
| The odds of an albino salmon surviving in the wild are virtually nil. |
| The salmon's sensitivity to environmental change and its cycles in both fresh and saltwater makes it a difficult species to conserve. |
| The wild Atlantic salmon was crowned King of Freshwater Fish by Izaak Walton in his book The Compleat Angler in 1654. |
| There are 24,700 species of fish in the world. |
| Unlike Pacific salmon that die after one spawning, wild Atlantic salmon survive and can repeat their migration cycle and spawn again. |
| Wild Atlantic salmon adapted over millennia to local conditions and specific migration routes in fresh and salt waters. |
| Wild Atlantic salmon are the canaries in the coal mines of our world. |
| Wild Atlantic salmon can attain swimming speeds of up to 20 miles per hour (30 kph) |
| Wild Atlantic salmon can hurdle 12 foot (3.8 m) waterfalls. |
| Wild Atlantic salmon can live to be 15 years old. |
| Wild Atlantic salmon can survive for up to 22 months without eating when they return from the ocean to their birth rivers to spawn. |
| Wild Atlantic salmon can swim more than 2,500 miles (4,000 km) to feeding grounds near Greenland and the Faroe Islands. |
| Wild Atlantic salmon can weigh up to 83 pounds (38 kg). |
| Wild Atlantic salmon females choose nest sites where the concentration of fine silt is low and dissolved oxygen high. |
| Wild Atlantic salmon have been declared endangered in eight Maine rivers and in 32 rivers in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. |
| Wild Atlantic salmon have been entirely decimated in 14 Nova Scotia rivers by acid rain originating in the US Midwest and Ontario. |
| Wild Atlantic salmon have spawned up to seven times. |
| Wild Atlantic salmon lose all their teeth and grow new ones when they return to fresh water from the sea. |
| Wild Atlantic salmon numbers declined from 1.5 million in the 1970s to fewer than a half million in 2004. |
| Wild Atlantic salmon once returned to more than 800 Atlantic salmon rivers in eastern North America. |
| Wild Atlantic salmon populations in different streams are distinct from each other. |
| Wild Atlantic salmon returning to New Brunswick's Miramichi River system comprise about 20% of the North American returns in some years. |
Wild Atlantic salmon were described in the rivers of Aquitania, (southwest France) in the famous Naturalis Historiae of Pliny the Elder written about 60AD.
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| Wild Atlantic salmon were one of the earliest known art subjects. |
| Wild Atlantic salmon will return to the almost exact spot where they hatched to spawn. |
| Wild Atlantic salmon, in Celtic lore, were believed to be endowed with secret knowledge. |
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