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The sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), also called red salmon, kokanee salmon, blueback salmon, or simply sockeye, is an anadromous species of salmon found in the Northern Pacific Ocean and rivers discharging into it.
The kokanee salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), also known as the kokanee trout, little redfish, silver trout, kikanning, Kennerly's salmon, Kennerly's trout, or Walla, [2] is the non-anadromous form of the sockeye salmon (meaning that they do not migrate to the sea, instead living out their entire lives in freshwater). There is some debate as to ...
Oncorhynchus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae, native to coldwater tributaries of the North Pacific basin. The genus contains twelve extant species, namely six species of Pacific salmon and six species of Pacific trout, all of which are migratory (either anadromous or potamodromous) mid-level predatory fish that display natal homing and ...
Salmon (/ ˈ s æ m ən /; pl.: salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.
According to scale analysis, Columbia River sockeye return after one year in the Pacific Ocean in the 17-inch range, 2-ocean fish about 20 inches long, and 3-ocean fish might reach 25 inches, with ...
Coho Salmon or Silver Salmon: Oncorhynchus kisutch: Chinook Salmon or King Salmon: Oncorhynchus tshawytscha: Kokanee Salmon or Sockeye Salmon: Oncorhynchus nerka: Pink Salmon: Oncorhynchus gorbuscha: Chum Salmon: Oncorhynchus keta: Rainbow Trout: Oncorhynchus mykiss: Coastal Rainbow Trout or Steelhead Trout: Oncorhyncus mykiss irideus ...
The list includes several anadromous species, and two normally marine species (starry flounder and shiner perch) that are occasionally found in freshwater. Only one species (Olympic mudminnow) is a Washington endemic, however three others (Nooksack dace, Salish sucker, and margined sculpin) have very limited distributions outside the state ...
The death of one species of salmon comes from a plan to save another from going extinct. Kokanee are a non-native game fish stocked in a handful of reservoirs across the state.