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Salmon is a range of pale pinkish-orange to light orange colors, named after the color of salmon flesh. Actual salmon color varies from almost white to deep red, depending on their levels of the carotenoid astaxanthin due to how rich a diet of krill and shrimp the fish feeds on; the salmon raised on fish farms are given artificial coloring in their food. Pink is a natural color made by mixing red and white. ... The colour orange occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum at a wavelength of about 585–620 nm. ... Color is an important part of the visual arts. ... Illustration of a male Coho Salmon The Chinook or King Salmon is the largest salmon in North America and can grow to 1. ... The orange ring surrounding Grand Prismatic Spring is due to carotenoid molecules, produced by huge mats of algae and bacteria. ... Astaxanthin Astaxanthin (as-tuh-zan-thin) is a carotenoid (kuh-rah-tuh-noydz). ... Families Euphausiidae Euphausia Dana, 1852 Meganyctiphanes Holt and W. M. Tattersall, 1905 Nematobrachion Calman, 1905 Nematoscelis G. O. Sars, 1883 Nyctiphanes G. O. Sars, 1883 Pseudeuphausia Hansen, 1910 Stylocheiron G. O. Sars, 1883 Tessarabrachion Hansen, 1911 Thysanoessa Brandt, 1851 Thysanopoda Latreille, 1831 Bentheuphausiidae Bentheuphausia amblyops Krill are shrimp-like marine... Superfamilies Alpheoidea Atyoidea Bresilioidea Campylonotoidea Crangonoidea Galatheacaridoidea Nematocarcinoidea Oplophoroidea Palaemonoidea Pandaloidea Pasiphaeoidea Procaridoidea Processoidea Psalidopodoidea Stylodactyloidea True shrimp are swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. ... A demonstration aquaculture facility Fish farming is the principal form of aquaculture. ...

 

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Salmon

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Light Salmon Pink

Light Salmon Pink
About these coordinates
About these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #FF9999
RGBB (r, g, b) (255, 153, 153)
HSV (h, s, v) (0°, 40%, 100%)
Source [Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Light Salmon Pink is a light pink color that resembles the color salmon. The name is derived from the flesh color of the pink salmon. Web colors are colors used in designing web pages, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors. ... The RGB color model mapped to a cube (with cut-away shown) A representation of additive color mixing The RGB color model is an additive model in which red, green, and blue (often used in additive light models) are combined in various ways to reproduce other colors. ... Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye. ... Mossy, green fountain in Wattens, Austria. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... An image with the hues cyclically shifted The hues in the image of this Painted Bunting are cyclically rotated with time. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Chromaticity. ... Brightness is an attribute of visual perception in which a source appears to emit a given amount of light. ... Pink is a natural color made by mixing red and white. ... Binomial name Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Walbaum, 1792) The pink salmon or humpback salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) (from the Russian gorbuscha--горбуша) is a species of anadromous fish in the salmon family. ...


The nutrient that imparts the pink flesh color is astaxanthin, which salmon ingest when they feed on other marine organisms, such as krill and small shrimp. Astaxanthin Astaxanthin (as-tuh-zan-thin) is a carotenoid (kuh-rah-tuh-noydz). ... Families Euphausiidae Euphausia Dana, 1852 Meganyctiphanes Holt and W. M. Tattersall, 1905 Nematobrachion Calman, 1905 Nematoscelis G. O. Sars, 1883 Nyctiphanes G. O. Sars, 1883 Pseudeuphausia Hansen, 1910 Stylocheiron G. O. Sars, 1883 Tessarabrachion Hansen, 1911 Thysanoessa Brandt, 1851 Thysanopoda Latreille, 1831 Bentheuphausiidae Bentheuphausia amblyops Krill are shrimp-like marine... Superfamilies Alpheoidea Atyoidea Bresilioidea Campylonotoidea Crangonoidea Galatheacaridoidea Nematocarcinoidea Oplophoroidea Palaemonoidea Pandaloidea Pasiphaeoidea Procaridoidea Processoidea Psalidopodoidea Stylodactyloidea True shrimp are swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. ...


It has become a running joke that when a male wears clothing that is pale pink (usually bought by a female loved one) to emphatically insist "It's not pink, it's salmon!" [1]


This color is used in the paper of some economic newspapers like the Financial Times. Hence economic press is sometimes named salmon press as opposed to white general newspapers.
The Financial Times (FT) is an international business newspaper printed on distinctive salmon pink broadsheet paper. ...


Salmon Pink

Salmon Pink
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About these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #FF91A4
RGBB (r, g, b) (255, 145, 164)
HSV (h, s, v) (14°, 62%, 100%)
Source [Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color salmon pink is displayed at right. Web colors are colors used in designing web pages, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors. ... The RGB color model mapped to a cube (with cut-away shown) A representation of additive color mixing The RGB color model is an additive model in which red, green, and blue (often used in additive light models) are combined in various ways to reproduce other colors. ... Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye. ... Mossy, green fountain in Wattens, Austria. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... An image with the hues cyclically shifted The hues in the image of this Painted Bunting are cyclically rotated with time. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Chromaticity. ... Brightness is an attribute of visual perception in which a source appears to emit a given amount of light. ...


This is the color called salmon in Crayola crayons. This color was introduced by Crayola in 1949. See the List of Crayola crayon colors. Crayola logo 2006-present Crayola past logo, 1994-2006 Crayola Crayons were first introduced in 1903 Crayola is a brand of crayons and other writing and drawing utensils, such as markers, chalk, and colored pencils manufactured by Binney & Smith, Inc. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ...




Light Salmon

Light Salmon
About these coordinates
About these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #FFA07A
RGBB (r, g, b) (255, 160, 122)
HSV (h, s, v) (14°, 62%, 100%)
Source [Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The web color light salmon is displayed at right. Web colors are colors used in designing web pages, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors. ... The RGB color model mapped to a cube (with cut-away shown) A representation of additive color mixing The RGB color model is an additive model in which red, green, and blue (often used in additive light models) are combined in various ways to reproduce other colors. ... Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye. ... Mossy, green fountain in Wattens, Austria. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... An image with the hues cyclically shifted The hues in the image of this Painted Bunting are cyclically rotated with time. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Chromaticity. ... Brightness is an attribute of visual perception in which a source appears to emit a given amount of light. ... Authors of web pages have a variety of options available for specifying colors for elements of web documents. ...




Medium Salmon

Medium Salmon
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About these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #FF8C69
RGBB (r, g, b) (255, 140, 105)
HSV (h, s, v) (14°, 59%, 100%)
Source [Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color medium salmon is shown at right. Web colors are colors used in designing web pages, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors. ... The RGB color model mapped to a cube (with cut-away shown) A representation of additive color mixing The RGB color model is an additive model in which red, green, and blue (often used in additive light models) are combined in various ways to reproduce other colors. ... Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye. ... Mossy, green fountain in Wattens, Austria. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... An image with the hues cyclically shifted The hues in the image of this Painted Bunting are cyclically rotated with time. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Chromaticity. ... Brightness is an attribute of visual perception in which a source appears to emit a given amount of light. ...




Salmon

Salmon
About these coordinates
About these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #FA8072
RGBB (r, g, b) (250, 128, 114)
HSV (h, s, v) (14°, 52%, 100%)
Source [Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The web color salmon is displayed at right. Web colors are colors used in designing web pages, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors. ... The RGB color model mapped to a cube (with cut-away shown) A representation of additive color mixing The RGB color model is an additive model in which red, green, and blue (often used in additive light models) are combined in various ways to reproduce other colors. ... Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye. ... Mossy, green fountain in Wattens, Austria. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... An image with the hues cyclically shifted The hues in the image of this Painted Bunting are cyclically rotated with time. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Chromaticity. ... Brightness is an attribute of visual perception in which a source appears to emit a given amount of light. ...




Dark Salmon

Dark salmon
About these coordinates
About these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #E9967A
RGBB (r, g, b) (233, 150, 122)
HSV (h, s, v) (15°, 48%, 91%)
Source [Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The web color dark salmon is a color that resembles the color Salmon, but is darker. Like the web colors light salmon and salmon shown above, it is used in HTML and CSS. Web colors are colors used in designing web pages, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors. ... The RGB color model mapped to a cube (with cut-away shown) A representation of additive color mixing The RGB color model is an additive model in which red, green, and blue (often used in additive light models) are combined in various ways to reproduce other colors. ... Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye. ... Mossy, green fountain in Wattens, Austria. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... An image with the hues cyclically shifted The hues in the image of this Painted Bunting are cyclically rotated with time. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Chromaticity. ... Brightness is an attribute of visual perception in which a source appears to emit a given amount of light. ... HTML, short for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. ... In computing, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. ...




Artistic representations of the color salmon



Shades of salmon color comparison chart

  • Light Salmon Pink (Hex: #FF9999) (RGB: 255, 153, 153)
  • Salmon Pink (Crayola "Salmon") (Hex: #FF91A4) (RGB: 255, 145, 164)
  • Light Salmon (web color) (Hex: #FFA07A) (RGB: 255, 160, 122)
  • Medium Salmon (Hex: #FF8C69) (RGB: 255, 140, 105)
  • SALMON (web color) (Hex: #FA8072) (RGB: 250, 128, 114)
  • Dark Salmon (web color) (Hex: #E9967A) (RGB: 233, 150, 122)

The color salmon pink comes in two shades, light salmon pink and salmon pink, both of which are shown below. ...

See also

  Shades of orange  
Orange Amber Coral Dark salmon Gamboge International orange Mahogany Peach Peach-orange Peach-yellow Pink-orange Pomegranate Pumpkin
                         
Rust Safety orange Salmon Tangerine Tenné (Tawny) UNECE Amber Vermilion Burnt Orange Apricot Carrot Orange Orange Peel Orange (web) Brown
                         

  Results from FactBites:
 
USGS WFRC Outreach (1008 words)
Salmon travel the distance from their home stream to the ocean which can be hundreds of miles and they may travel in the ocean up to Alaska and far out to sea, some up to 1,000 miles.
Salmon eggs are very sensitive to movement early in their development so they are not moved until they are "eyed" (their eyes are showing through the egg).
Salmon come back to the same stream they were "born" in because they "know" it is a good place to spawn and they won't waste time looking for another stream with good habitat and other fish to spawn with.
Salmon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1218 words)
Salmon are anadromous : they are born in fresh water, migrate to the ocean, then return to fresh water to reproduce.
Salmon are carnivorous and are currently fed a meal produced from catching other wild fish, so as the number of farmed salmon increase, the demand for other fish to feed the salmon increases.
Pink salmon or Humpback salmon ( Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) is found from northern California and Korea, throughout the northern Pacific, and from the Mackenzie River in Canada to the Lena River in Siberia.
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