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The world's largest producer and market supplier of Chinook salmon is New Zealand. In 2009, New Zealand exported 5,088 tonnes (5,609 short tons) of Chinook salmon, marketed as king salmon, equating to a value of NZ$61 million in export earnings. For the year ended March 2011, this amount had increased to NZ$85 million.
It is said that these Chinook salmon had massive amounts of energy reserves. They also produced large amounts of offspring. Bob Heinith of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission stated that June hogs most likely migrated to the sea as very young fish before the age of one.
Salmonidae (/ s æ l ˈ m ɒ n ɪ d iː /, lit. "salmon-like") is a family of ray-finned fish that constitutes the only currently extant family in the order Salmoniformes (/ s æ l ˈ m ɒ n ɪ f ɔːr m iː z /, lit. "salmon-shaped"), consisting of 11 extant genera and over 200 species collectively known as "salmonids" or "salmonoids".
Tyee salmon, another name for Chinook salmon, a fish species; Tyee Mountain, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada; Tyee, Oregon, United States, an unincorporated community; a tribal chief of the Chinookan peoples in the Pacific Northwest of the United States; Tyee High School, SeaTac, Washington, United States
Nov. 24—A piece of art long admired by LuVerne Grussing now greets anglers, boaters and others who visit Steelhead Park in North Lewiston. Grussing, an avid steelhead angler and board member of ...
The 2002 Klamath River fish kill occurred on the Klamath River in California in September 2002. According to the official estimate of mortality, about 34,000 fish died. Though some counts may estimate over 70,000 adult chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) were killed when returning to the river to spawn, [1] making it the largest salmon kill in the history of the Western United
Aug. 11—The salmon wiggled in the tanks on the back of the truck, throwing water into the sky. A few people standing on the truck bed next to the tanks netted the fish, one at a time, then ...
Aug. 23—The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced on Wednesday that it has completed the release of about 23 million fall-run Chinook salmon raised at its four Central ...