[nickcarraway]

This seems ridiculous to me. Salmon has the most fat of any fish, up to 50% or so of calories coming from fat.

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[PGR88]

Don’t Eskimos north of the Arctic circle live exclusively on seal meat and blubber?

[frank ballenger]

They eventually discovered Hostess Twinkies and Cheetohs. And were saved.

[SamAdams76]

You could probably live on salmon alone. The Eskimos have survived for hundreds of years on a mostly fish diet.

[dainbramaged]

I used to catch a lot of salmon when we lived in Alaska, and the best parts for the smoker are the fattiest, like the belly strips from coho or king which have the most oil. Not something you’d find at the supermarket.

[BobL]

“Prehistoric Pacific Coast Diets Had Salmon Limits”

The 9th Circuit didn’t really start destroying the country until Jimmy Carter doubled its size...and that was LONG AFTER prehistoric days.

So more Fake News, here.

[MikeHu]

Typical vegan article.

Devoid of any facts.

[Rebelbase]

On Lewis and Clark’s return trip from the Pacific coast they stopped at an indian village along the Colombia River and were met with endless racks of salmon drying.

They were so sick of eating salmon they traded for dogs to eat.

[SunkenCiv]

Thx, will ping soon.

[blueplum]

ok, had to look, and it looks like Coho is the highest protein at 37% followed by Sockeye, with King the fattiest

High-fat Pacific Salmon:
King (chinook)
304 calories, 17.7 grams of fat (52%), 33.9 grams of protein
Sockeye (red)
286 calories, 14.6 grams of fat (46%), 36.2 grams of protein

“Low-fat” Pacific Salmon
“Coho (silver)
248 calories, 10.1 grams of fat (37%), 36.8 grams of protein
Pink (humpy)
197 calories, 5.9 grams of fat (27%), 33.9 grams of protein
Chum (keta)
204 calories, 6.4 grams of fat (28%), 34.3 grams of protein

https://www.cookinglight.com/food/in-season/pacific-salmon-varieties#:~:text=Pacific%20waters%20are%20home%20to%20five%20types%20of,grams%20of%20fat%20%2852%25%29%2C%2033.9%20grams%20of%20protein.

[mad_as_he$$]

ping

[PIF]

ancient indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest whose diet was once thought to be almost all salmon
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The quote above must have been made by some armchair scientist type who had never been to the PNW never read any of the many ethnobiology books which source from elderly tribal types interviewed from the early 1900s to the 1950s

No they did not live on salmon alone - one reason is that the Canadian tribes would hold their annual slave raids in the fall when the salmon were returning. They would take all the salmon hung up to dry by the locals. Survivors had to make do with tail ends of the runs.

There is literally hundreds of things that can be eaten in the forests and rivers of the Pac NW.

The locals ate lots of deer; and the plentiful varieties of berries which were mashed into balls and sun dried.

Interestingly, despite plentiful crab, clams and oysters, they would only be eaten in times of starvation.