10 Facts About Chum salmon

Chum salmon, known as dog salmon or keta salmon, is a species of anadromous salmonid fish from the genus Oncorhynchus native to the coastal rivers of the North Pacific and the Beringian Arctic, and is often marketed under the trade name silverbrite salmon in North America.

In Japan, chum salmon is known as the white salmon, autumn salmon or simply "the salmon", while historically it was known in kun'yomi as "stone katsura fish" up until the Meiji period.

In Greater China, it is known academically as the "hook-snout Chum salmon", but is more often called the damaha fish, which is borrowed from dawa ima?a, the Nanai name of the fish used by the Hezhe minority in northern Northeast China.

Chum salmon have an ocean coloration of silvery blue green with some indistinct spotting in a darker shade, and a rather paler belly.

Chum salmon have the largest natural range of any Pacific salmon.

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Chum salmon are found all around the North Pacific, off the coasts of Japan, Korea, the Russian Far East, British Columbia in Canada, and from Alaska to California in the United States.

In fall 2017 a half dozen chum salmon were counted in Lagunitas Creek about 25 miles north of San Francisco, California.

Chum salmon is the least commercially valuable salmon in North America.

Two populations of chum salmon have been listed under the Endangered Species Act as threatened species.

Chum salmon are thought to be fairly resistant to whirling disease, but it is unclear.