yfw that color actually comes from crustaceans they eat: 🤯
Might as well call it crustacean pink instead. That name sounds much better than a word with a silent L.
Carotenoids are produced by algae, plants and certain fungi.
Feeding fish higher-level animals in the food web (like crustaceans or fish that predate on crustaceans) concentrates the carotenoids and brings out more and more color in the fish, specifically red.
And mercury right?
Mercury is more highly concentrated in higher-level organisms in a similar fashion, yes.
But mercury itself has nothing to do with coloring.
This is also the source of a flamingo’s colour. The debate if salmon are fishy flamingos or flamingos are feathery salmon has yet to be settled.
I thought Salmon were actually gray on the inside? Is this a farm raised versus wild thing?
Farm-raised salmon are usually pink. Wild caught salmon are usually bright red.
This kills the salmon
I’m here for the lochs and cream cheese
Lox, gotta have the capers too
Isn’t this just a rip from a webcomic?
Worked pretty well for dracula on Sesame Street I guess.
Fish are food, not friends!
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Sean Kelly, @nutjob4life@fosstodon.org
ME: We have a color named after you
SALMON: Really? Is it silvery-blue like my scales?
ME: No, uh …
SALMON: Wait why is it pink?
ME: …
SALMON: WHY IS IT PINK?!?
So, don’t people generally know that Salmon is pink in color? Well, pinkish-orange anyway. My question is - what happens if you’re a girl and…you don’t LIKE THE COLOR PINK!! (Sorry I’ll give you a moment to recover from having your mind blown). I’m male and I hate the color pink but not because it’s the color of every toy ever made for girls - it’s just a color that makes me think of Pepto Bismal. I don’t see the attraction.
