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Salmon Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Salmon" has been searched for 17,323 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 59,264,821 miles!

This means that the average distance is 3,421 miles - that's 16% closer than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 1026 kg CO2 by plane, 937 kg CO2 by car, or 192 kg CO2 by train.

For context: growing/producing 1kg of farmed fish is estimated to generate roughly 13.63 kg CO2e in total (land use, farming, processing and packaging combined) - for most foods, that's far more than the transport emissions above. See what the research says about why what you eat usually matters more than how far it travelled. (Estimate for the closest matching category, Farmed fish, not this exact product - source: Our World in Data, based on Poore & Nemecek 2018.)

The Top 20 sources are shown below:

Country From # of checks
Norway 7,102
Canada 1,631
United Kingdom 1,442
United States 1,096
Chile 1,063
Japan 547
China 382
Australia 336
Thailand 259
Ireland 194
New Zealand 188
Iceland 174
American Samoa 145
Denmark 120
Sweden 119
Russia 99
Spain 65
Poland 64
Greenland 61

Related Items

Due to the food types being user entered, these might also be of use:

Alaskan Salmon, Atlantic Salmon, Canned Salmon, Farmed Salmon, FRESH SALMON, Frozen Salmon, John West Salmon, Ocean Rise Salmon, Pie Filling Of Salmon, Pink Salmon

Wondering how far this really gets you, and what it means for your own choices? See what the current research says about food miles, or find out whether food miles still matter in 2026.

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