Giant salmon, large enough to feed 100 people, accidentally discovered in New Zealand | Seven Sharp

The tyee is a rare type of salmon that has taken on an almost mythical status in North America, and now it’s being bred here.
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[@SalvableRuin]

"We can't tell you where it is." 1. They use water from the Te Waikoropupū Springs. 2. Seals come "all the way from the sea" to eat the fish. In other words, it's near Golden Bay, New Zealand.

[@caravanlifenz]

I laughed at that too. New Zealanders know where that place is.

[@898792]

There's a lot of marketing going on here. basically it's Chinook salmon, NOT a different sub species. They're just being grown to larger sizes. Also Chinook are not native to New Zealand, they were introduced, and New Zealand is the largest exporter of Chinook salmon in the world, so saying that they "didn't even know they were there" is disingenuous.

[@user-bw8rk3gm8c]

I use to fish for those and not as uncommon as the video says. Wild fish always taste better than the farmed ones like that

[@meisteremm]

All depending. Growing up in Milwaukee, WI, my family was poor enough that availability of meat was sometimes an issue. During these times, we'd go down under the viaducts and catch Steelhead and Coho that liked to spawn near a water treatment plant. Those fish basically tasted like rubber with a fishy aftertaste. I don't want to think of how many PCBs we might have taken in from the meat.

[@brianfarmer6223]

Using world’s cleanest spring to farm a non native fish

[@mountebank5034]

Goofy New Zealanders are falling for this marketing scam lol. I am American, these salmon are common.

[@danthesquirrel]

A fence to keep the seals from trekking through the forest to get these special salmon? People paying $17,000 for one farmed salmon? Farmed salmon who's flesh is gray until it's dyed pink? I live in Washington State in the US, Tyee just means it's a big Chinook salmon. Fishermen get $15 a pound for wild Chinook (Sockeye only gets $10 a pound). It is neither rare or mythical, just more upscale that what you would find in a can. Fact checking this on the internet probably would have only set you back only 5 minutes.

[@harrycurrie9664]

I think he said $1,700 for a 60 kg ( 132 lb ) fish = $12.50 per lb. approx.

[@danthesquirrel]

@@harrycurrie9664 I spent 3 more minutes of my life finding that part and you're right, 17 hundred, which is in the realm of reasonable. After another 2 minute investment of my time I learned (from a sketchy AI summary) that salmon farmers now feed supplements to their fish so their flesh isn't grey anymore. Maybe if this guy fed them some of that wasabi to give them a spicy kick he would have something special. That or feed them coffee beans and roast what they poop out. For some reason people pay big money for coffee that was naturally processed by exotic animals. Who knows, maybe that coffee would be high in omega-3's.

[@JayCWhiteCloud]

I should have never clicked on this... advertisement... misinformation...inaccurate...silly...

[@mrc6301]

free advertising for a multi million dollar business. why dont they give a struggling business free advertising?

[@supriadiramlan5545]

because its not "free" mate :) and they wrap it like news to camouflage lol

[@optimumpcyt]

Because you are not a member of their club and neither am i , they only do favors for their own

[@geomundi8333]

@@optimumpcyt whew??? what club? dur

[@optimumpcyt]

@@geomundi8333 it's a brotherhood, if you know you know, if you don't know you should read the Bible. It tells you the world is ran by people in high places and the ones they serve are not flesh and blood but spiritual beings. This is a foreign language to you if you don't follow Jesus. You will just be lost in a storm with no direction. You might of heard of this club though. It's the one that actors and singers have to sell their soul to join and become famous.

[@caravanlifenz]

He's a New Zealander who has done well for himself and employs other New Zealanders. Why shouldn't we be happy for him and celebrate his success? Why be just another bitter Kiwi guy with tall poppy syndrome who is jealous of another Kiwi?

[@deadfrequency1259]

amazing, you can tell the guy giving the tour is passionate about what hes doing!

[@user-ht4pp6ly1v]

I remember seeing salmon over six feet long going up the fish ladders at the Dalles Dam on the Columbia River in The Dalles ,Oregon in the 70s.True story.

[@LivingWithGout]

Omg this is the “Emergency Deffecation!” Lady

[@EVILONE021377]

Seafood, untrustworthy 😂

[@James-kv6kb]

I'm Australian and I'm having trouble with the ascent lol and I'm sure that station won't be getting ads for seafood ever again

[@optimumpcyt]

The news is full of lies. So the fish was just recently discovered but the natives already had a name for it right. Tell me both the truth and the lie at the same time.

[@mistermysteryman107]

100 people? bullsh*t

[@loboalamo]

… the gmo’s are mushy before you cook them.

[@Witchfoot.Incorporated]

They’re going to be disappointed bc they DO NOT feed king salmon the correct diet.

[@B3OWOLF416]

I want 150 lb wild catfish

[@huebdoo]

So someone from BC here (caught a Tyee) 1. Tyee = King in "Chinook jargon" which was a pigeon language between first nations and white traders. 2. Tyee is given as a measurement of weight over 30lbs and Spring Salmon.

[@loboalamo]

Just so long as its not mushy. Same goes for Steel Head Trout. Mushy = gmo

[@connormccoury9272]

no its just a selectively bred king (chinook) salmon

[@jacksonsinclair2615]

These are just farmed raised salmon. The best Chinook salmon are wild caught spring chinook from the pacific northwest. Meat tastes like it butter.

[@markrouse2416]

The only reason they are growing large is they are unable to swim up a fresh water river to breed. That fresh water causes salmon to deteriorate as they search for a suitable place to lay eggs. The King salmon in Alaska become very large because there are less dammed rivers that keep total numbers down.

[@joemurphy6736]

i’m not sure if freshwater is what directly causes the deterioration of salmon. In the great lakes, salmon spend their whole lives in freshwater and only deteriorate after entering the spawning system, some even spend their whole lives in very large rivers. however, I am unfamiliar with the exact reason why they decline so rapidly after entering streams.

[@boblove6865]

Lmao dude just making shit up

[@Zetler]

Now I’m starving.

[@ollkorrect4353]

They never showed the fish

[@jenson1569]

Well they did mate several times

[@nohandsdan9353]

I have issues with that host on the right suggesting that fresh caught fish is somehow bad for you. Host on the left was looking like she was about to smack him too after what he said 😂

[@marcialsantiago8383]

Damn. And I thought the American media was full of shit.

[@oregonwoodwizard]

I remember seeing pictures at the oregon maritime museum. Where they showed really really big long over sized salmon being harvested. These do not compare to those older giants of long ago.

[@jeffjones3040]

Fish so big it could feed 100 people. "It has been here since god knows when". I would think a fish THAT BIG, would be a little hard to miss....especially in a FISHERY!

[@markdeiter3020]

Wow. Another fish farm. Big deal. Nothing natural or exciting about it.

[@user-nx8ii4ef7f]

Great discovery, but do they still taste of putty like farmed salmon?

[@bunny-jayfalwasser4404]

Salmon is meh, Kahawai is without doubt the most underrated fish ever

[@loboalamo]

I think it’s a gmo. ….but we just didn’t know it?

[@ronnieb5468]

I guess they idiots didn't realize that they pretty much gave away the location of there super secret farm ,that no 1 is supposed to know the location of .. at the end of the clip they say that the water comes from some very specific natural spring , it's definitely narrows down the location of a farm for any would be poachers..ughh that's the end of that species...lol

[@420california]

Fish farm fish are disgusting....

[@dennisyoung4631]

“So when do Trout (salmonids) have the shape of an Anvil?”

[@tristendunn1808]

Yeah i need a bannana for scale

[@Timberbeast1100]

The tyee salmon is just a Chinook salmon aka king salmon that just get big. 40lbs or more.

[@michaellapalice3068]

In Canada they catch them every year and there wild .

[@Gila-kasla777]

Wut in the world?!

[@Bjornfreein83]

Takata south island new Zealand

[@SalvableRuin]

@4:10 the woman host says, "Oh, I do love semen." See, New Zealand? THAT'S why you need to learn to pronounce vowels properly.

[@meisteremm]

What if she just likes semen, and wanted the audience at home to know?

[@meisteremm]

What if she just likes semen and wanted viewers to know?

[@samhunt9380]

Farmed in fresh water.....yuk.

[@loboalamo]

I think King salmon are not mushy before you cook them.

[@pedrogonzalez-bm1zm]

She said she loves semen lol

[@jamesmcroberts3654]

Farmed salmon are apparently one of the worst cancer causing foods out there because of what they're feed , pity cause they look mouth watering .

[@jenson1569]

These aren’t regular salmon, they’re looked after differently

[@livinglifegrigg4927]

Not even good money if you have to grow them for 6+ years

[@richardmongello579]

Gee wiz . A fish for the elite. They have their names on it. It would figure that this is centered in New Zealand .

[@user-ju8yo7rt2w]

These are farm-raised salmon guys they're not even going to be able to get their color of meet naturally from the ocean they're going to be feeding these things pellets is it just like Atlantic salmon it's all farm-raised and you don't eat that you don't eat anything that comes out of fresh water the specially raw

[@Aladinscave]

It’s salmon…..🤷🏻‍♂️

[@billg.7909]

They should share with the seals.

[@DirtyNapkins101]

I think king salmon get bigger

[@mau_rakau101]

Poachers? Like the crown poached Māori land.

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

😲😲😲😲

[@travispolson6156]

Farmed fish is gross.

[@mymusicandvideos]

Just genetic modify. Is it good and safe for humans? They will say yes for sure. Where are the proof is safe?

[@Bjornfreein83]

Takaka

[@user-em2nh2hh8m]

Over priced

[@mr.monitor.]

The cleanest river in the world is called poo poo💩😴