Pacific Seafood Group




	Fun Facts

	The average person in the U.S. consumes about 16.8 lbs of seafood annually

	Shrimp is the nation’s most popular seafood.

	A female Spring Chinook salmon carries more than 4,000 eggs.

	Salmon returning to the Wenatchee River travel 500 miles and over 7 dams from the Pacific Ocean to get to their place of birth.

	Count the rings on a fish scale to determine their age.

	The oldest known salmon was 7 years old.

	Coho salmon is the number one sport fish. It spends only one winter at sea, and returns the following fall to spawn.

	Chinook salmon may travel as many as 2,500 miles to the ocean and stay there for 4 to 7 years before returning to their home stream.

	Studies have shown that mothers who eat more ocean fish during pregnancy have children that perform better in school and have better social abilities.