[Sca-cooks] Seeking salmon recipe

[Antonia di B C]

On 23/09/2011 3:13 AM, Donna Green wrote:
> Really? No salmon in NZ prior to European contact? Pacific salmon and Atlantic salmon are, as I understand it, different speicies and we've got Pacific salmon on this side of the Pacific. I would think the conditions in NZ would be good for salmon too and that the Pacific variety would have made it over their on their own without human assistance. Just a bit suprised at that.
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Yes, really.  Trout were introduced to New Zealand in the 1860s and 
salmon in the early 20th century.


http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/trout-and-salmon/1
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/trout-and-salmon/4
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/trout-and-salmon/3

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