ABSTRACT
Arctic char has a northern circumpolar distribution, and anadromous populations occur in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, Novaja Zemlja, Siberia, and northern Norway. Nonmigratory and landlocked populations are found both in these northern areas and in areas of North America and Europe further to the south. From the viewpoint of farming, it is the anadromous populations that have been examined with greatest interest, but prior to the upswing of interest in the potential of char as a farmed species, most scientific studies had been carried out on southern nonmigratory populations.
