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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.
California's latest estimates of fall-run Chinook salmon show a population decline. State officials say the fishing season could be scaled back or shut down.
California’s spring-run Chinook salmon were already in the midst of a population crash before the Park fire exploded into the state's fourth-largest wildfire in history.Biologists now worry the ...
The 23 million salmon raised and released by wildlife officials this year is a 15% increase from the count in 2022. 23 million Chinook salmon were released throughout California’s Central Valley ...
In the 1870s, “quinnant”, or Chinook salmon were reported from lower San Leandro Creek and persisted in Lake Chabot for several years following the completion of Lake Chabot Dam in 1875. [12]
Two adult Chinook salmon 60 centimetres (24 in) and 65 centimetres (26 in) long were caught by gill net and released in a 2005 study of San Felipe Lake, although these may have been fall-run Chinook from hatchery net-pen operations that released these fish at Moss Landing. [29]
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s plan for reestablishing wild, self-sustaining salmon populations in the Klamath calls for monitoring fall-run Chinook and coho salmon, as well as ...
Chinook salmon is the largest of all Pacific salmon, frequently exceeding 6 ft (1.8 m) and 14 kg (30 lb). [45] The name tyee is also used in British Columbia to refer to Chinook salmon over 30 pounds and in the Columbia River watershed, especially large Chinooks were once referred to as June hogs.