Here we go again – the countdown to World Salmon Day – 8 October 2025 – the salmon industry will be drumming up enthusiasm, and there will be photo ops of political enablers having a salmon meal or otherwise celebrating this very special date.
They would probably be getting the message out early but for the fact that their World Salmon Day is preceded 7 October*, a day with very grim connotations.
The unfortunate promoters of National Chocolate Covered Pretzel Day on 7 October might be looking to re-locate.
The origin of World Salmon Day is, predictably, from the USA where ‘Chicken of the Sea’, a Californian seafood company, proposed a date which may have had some importance in Michigan in relation to the return of wild salmon to the rivers for spawning.
The ‘Chicken of the Sea’ origins are not mentioned locally, perhaps because it might conjure up images of battery hens. Some would suggest that a battery hen arguably has a better quality of life than a battery salmon.
World Podiatry Day is also on 8 October, World Hospice and Palliative Care Day and International Top Spinning Day.
And we must not forget International Fluffernutter Day where you are urged to bring up the childhood memories!
Fluffernutter Day, held every year on 8 October is a day dedicated to a snack that originated in New England, United States, consisting of a sandwich with peanut butter and marshmallow fluff served between two slices of bread. It is believed to come from 20th-century Massachusetts after the marshmallow creme was invented.
One could bring up more than childhood memories after eating a fluffernutter.
Strangely there is no United Nations agency with power to regulate the various international days, weeks or months. This calendar of celebration is a wild west, anyone can stake a claim.
In view of this we propose that 8 October 2025 be observed also as International Shill Day, a recognition of public figures and politicians who promote the products of their political allies and donors. There could be some synergy between World Salmon Day and International Shill Day.
*On 7 October 1830 Governor George Arthur launched the “Black Line” in Tasmania, a large-scale military operation involving over 2,000 settlers, soldiers and convicts forming a human chain to drive Aboriginal people onto the Tasman Peninsular.
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