According to family members, Kayamori sent letters, money, pictures, toys and once a whole salmon packed in salt.

Monthly board meetings are catered with cold whole salmon and London broil.

In terms of cooking, the best substitute would be whole salmon, which are readily available and, if anything, cheaper.

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At another special event, fishermen brought huge, whole salmon, and diners crowded around so they could touch them.

"Rent a safety deposit box," he said, "then deposit in it one whole fresh salmon and go away for six months."

They were to correctly fillet a whole salmon and cut it into at least 10 portions.

And the restaurant pays more attention to seafood than most of the others do, with whole roasted salmon wheeled to the table for carving.

The tariff, which averages 26 percent, has priced whole fresh Norwegian salmon out of the market.

I had to order a whole salmon, which cost me $50, and have it specially filleted.