Atlantic salmon from the Latin "salmo", meaning salmon, and "salar", meaning leaper, according to M. Barton, but more likely meaning "resident of salt water" . Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1879) translates "salar" as a kind of trout from its use in the "Idylls" of the poet Ausonius (4th century CE). Later, the differently coloured smolts were found to be the same species. Other names used to reference Atlantic salmon are: bay salmon, black salmon, caplin-scull salmon, Sebago salmon, silver salmon, fiddler, or outside salmon. At different points in their maturation and life cycle, they are known as parr,
Joseph Salmon (publisher) Joseph Salmon (publisher) Joseph Salmon (1845 – 9 November 1923) was a British bookseller turned postcard publisher and printer, and the founder of J Salmon Ltd in 1880, the UK's oldest postcard and calendar publisher. He was born in the parish of St George in the East, in what is now Stepney, London, the son of Joseph and Maria Salmon. His father was a baker. In the 1881 census, he was listed as a stationer and printer, with five assistants and two boys working for him. He retired in 1898, and his son, also called Joseph, took over the family