You do not need to cook salmon to any temperature. They don’t inherently have food-borne pathogens. People eat it raw. Most salmon-related illnesses come from p

You do not need to cook salmon to any temperature. They don’t inherently have food-borne pathogens. People eat it raw. Most salmon-related illnesses come from processed salmon (like smoked) where cross contamination introduces listeria. Also, most bacteria actually begin to die at around 130F, which her chart I think shows it gets well above. (It looks like it gets into the low 60s, which is well above that.) Also I’m pretty sure the only food-borne pathogen that forms spores is clostridium botulinum, and that’s not found in fish.