Atlantic salmon is Salmo salar, not a generic synonym for every salmon species. A comparable record preserves that scientific identity; separates farmed, wild-caught and freshwater-caught production; identifies farming country and site or catch area and gear; and distinguishes whole, headed-and-gutted, fillet, portion, mince, roe, smoked and other processed forms. Fresh, chilled, frozen, thawed and previously frozen states remain explicit. Each lot retains harvest or catch date, process, size and weight band, trim, skin and bone status, colour method where relevant, glaze and net weight, aquaculture-drug and food-safety evidence, temperature history, package, lot, custody, quantity, currency, Incoterm, destination, delivery window and information vintage. Species identity, an ecolabel, a standard reference or a supplier statement does not by itself establish conformity, sustainability, availability or delivered price for an offered lot.
FDA's Seafood List identifies Salmo salar with the acceptable U.S. market name Salmon, Atlantic and keeps it distinct from Pacific Oncorhynchus species. FAO's cultured-species fact sheet likewise identifies Atlantic salmon as Salmo salar. EU Regulation 1379/2013 requires applicable fishery and aquaculture products sold to consumers to show commercial designation and scientific name, production method, catch or farming area, capture gear where relevant and defrosted state. ISO 12877:2011 specifies information to record through farmed-finfish distribution chains. FDA's fourth-edition seafood hazards guidance requires product- and process-specific hazard analysis; none of these sources is a lot certificate or live delivered quotation.
FDA and FAO identify Atlantic salmon as Salmo salar. Pacific salmon belong to Oncorhynchus species and carry different accepted market names, biological identities, fisheries and evidence. Atlas resolves Atlantic salmon to Salmo salar and retains the commercial designation, scientific name, origin and lot; it does not inherit evidence from the broad Salmon page or from a Pacific species.
Production method changes the chain of custody, area evidence, controls and commercial meaning. EU rules explicitly distinguish caught, caught in freshwater and farmed for applicable products. Atlas records farm, site, cohort, feed and treatment history for aquaculture, or vessel, catch date, area, gear and landing evidence for capture fisheries, without inferring a production method from species or country.
A country label is not the full origin record. Farmed Atlantic salmon requires farming country and site or cohort linkage; captured fish requires catch area, vessel and landing linkage where applicable. Repacking, processing or export country does not silently replace biological production origin. Atlas retains each transformation and custody event so an origin claim remains tied to the exact trade unit.
Whole, gutted, headed-and-gutted, sides, fillets, portions, mince, roe, smoked and other prepared products have different yields, trim, safety controls and commercial specifications. Atlas keeps product form, size or weight band, skin, bones, pin-bone removal, trim, colour method where used, additives, glaze, package and net quantity attached to the lot.
Temperature state affects shelf life, handling, labelling and comparability. Atlas records harvest or catch time, chilling and freezing route, core or product temperatures, storage, transport, thawing, refreezing controls and arrival condition. The word fresh does not erase previous freezing, and a temperature specification is not proof that the lot remained within it.
Parasites, pathogens, aquaculture drugs, environmental contaminants, allergens, reduced-oxygen packaging and time-temperature abuse depend on production method, process, destination and intended use. FDA's hazards guidance structures analysis by species and process. Atlas retains the hazard analysis, governing rule, sample, method, laboratory, result, corrective action and lot rather than publishing one universal Atlantic-salmon limit.
ISO 12877 identifies information to record through farmed-finfish chains, while certification has separate certificate-holder, scope, site, validity and chain-of-custody requirements. Neither establishes current availability, conformity, transaction value or delivered cost. A defensible estimate still needs permitted current observations for the exact Salmo salar production method, origin, product form, state, grade and size, package and lot, quantity, currency, Incoterm, load and destination points, delivery window, cold chain, freight, duties and information vintage. Atlas withholds an estimate when those observations or usage rights are missing.
Atlantic salmon is Salmo salar. FDA lists Salmon, Atlantic as its acceptable U.S. market name, and FAO uses Atlantic salmon for the same scientific species.
No. Atlantic salmon is Salmo salar; Pacific salmon includes several Oncorhynchus species. Evidence, origin and commercial records must not be transferred between them.
No. The production method must be recorded. A lot may be farmed, wild-caught or freshwater-caught, with the appropriate farm-site or catch evidence.
No. Certification has its own scope and custody chain. It does not replace lot-specific species, production, quality, safety, availability or delivered-cost evidence.
Salmo salar identity, farmed or captured method, farm site or catch area and gear, product form, fresh or frozen state, harvest or catch date, size and weight band, trim, skin and bone status, colour method where relevant, glaze and net weight, safety and residue evidence, cold chain, package, lot and custody, quantity, currency, Incoterm, destination, delivery window and evidence date.
Figures retain their source, period and review date. Corroboration is not promoted to primary evidence.