Salmon is an important food to many indigenous peoples of the northern hemisphere. Certain Native American tribes have always protected and guarded the spirit of the salmon to prevent it from going away for ever. Salmon migrate at the end of their life from the open ocean up rivers to freshwater lakes where they spawn and die. Some salmon have become landlocked. Many salmon in the world are farmed, especially in Norway and now China. This salmon fisherman stands in a steambed. (Hughes Food History Archives)

Salmon are commercially fished and loaded from nets into the holds of ships. (Hughes Food History Archives)

This 1935 leaflet advertises a popular brand of canned salmon. (Hughes Food History Archives)