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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. This species is a Pacific salmon that is primarily red in hue during spawning. They can grow up to 84 cm (2 ft 9 in) in length ...
North Alaska Salmon Company North Pacific Cannery , Prince Rupert, British Columbia – oldest extant West Coast salmon cannery (1889), National Historic Site Pacific Coast Salmon Cannery , Broderick, California , former National Historic Landmark
The Alaska salmon fishery is a managed fishery that supports the annual harvest of five species of wild Pacific Salmon for commercial fishing, sport fishing, subsistence by Alaska Native communities, and personal use by local residents.
The salmon is caught by MSC-certified fisheries from the coastal waters or rivers of Alaska, Oregon and Washington and cooked once in the can in an Alaskan or Oregon cannery.
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.
Coho salmon are the backbone of the Alaskan troll fishery, though the majority are caught by the net fishery (gillnet and seine fishing). They average 3.5% by fish and 5.9% by weight of the annual Alaska salmon harvest. [15] The North Pacific yields of pink salmon, chum salmon and sockeye salmon are about 15 times larger by weight. [14]