12 Facts About Sockeye salmon

Sockeye salmon, 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.

Sockeye salmon is the third-most common Pacific salmon species, after pink and chum salmon.

Sockeye salmon is sometimes called red or blueback salmon, due to its color.

Sockeye salmon are blue tinged with silver in color while living in the ocean.

Similar to most Pacific salmon, sockeye salmon are semelparous, meaning they die after spawning once.

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Sockeye salmon that die prematurely from predation are typically the larger ones in a population.

Reproduction in the sockeye salmon has to be accomplished with the energy stores brought to the spawning grounds.

Sockeye salmon have long been important in the diet and culture of the Coast Salish people of British Columbia.

The Snake River sockeye salmon was listed as endangered in November 1991, after the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe at Fort Hall Indian Reservation petitioned the National Marine Fisheries Service.

Sockeye salmon is an exception to 2010's forecast resurgence of Oregonian fish stocks.

Record numbers of a once-waning population of sockeye salmon have been returning to the Northwest's Columbia Basin, with thousands more crossing the river's dams in a single day than the total numbers seen in some previous years.

Fraser River Sockeye salmon run has experienced declines in productivity since the 1990s, mirroring a similar decline in the 1960s.