Salmon (item)

Raw salmon is a food item. Cooked salmon is a food item obtained by cooking raw salmon.

Fishing
The most common way of obtaining raw salmon is fishing. The wait time of one being caught is decreased with the Lure enchantment and the chance of one being caught is slightly decreased with the Luck of the Sea enchantment (named as such because it increases treasure, not fish).

Guardians and Elder Guardians
Guardians and elder guardians drop a random fish as a rare drop besides the common raw cod drop. This has a 25% chance of being raw salmon. The chance of getting a fish can be increased with Looting, but the type of fish is not affected.

Polar Bears
Polar bears drop 0–2 raw fish when killed. This has a 25% chance of being raw salmon. The salmon will be raw even if the polar bear is on fire when killed.

Salmon
Salmon mobs will always drop 1 raw salmon in its item form when killed. If the salmon was killed while on fire, then it will drop cooked salmon instead.

Food
Raw salmon restores and 0.2 saturation. Cooked salmon restores and 9.6 saturation.

Ocelots
Salmon can be used to tame ocelots, get cats off of chests, beds, etc., breed cats, and make baby cats grow up faster by 10% of the remaining time.

Trivia

 * In the Halloween Update, Notch said he would add fish as a sea creature; however, he had limited time, and was thus only able to add them as an item. However, they will be added in 1.13 update.