iChum salmon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Salmoniformes Family: Salmonidae Genus: Oncorhynchus Species: O. keta
Binomial name
Oncorhynchus keta (Walbaum, 1792)

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The Chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) is a species of anadromous fish in the salmon family. It is a Pacific salmon and is also known as dog salmon or Keta salmon. In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ... Many types of fish undertake migrations on a regular basis, on time scales ranging from daily to annual, and with distances ranging from a few meters to thousands of kilometers. ... A giant grouper at the Georgia Aquarium Fish are aquatic vertebrates that are typically cold blooded, covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. ... Illustration of a male Coho Salmon The Chinook or King Salmon is the largest salmon in North America and can grow to 1. ... In biological classification, family (Latin: familia, plural familiae) is 1) a rank or 2) a taxon in that rank. ... For other meanings of Pacific, see Pacific (disambiguation). ... Illustration of a male Coho Salmon The Chinook or King Salmon is the largest salmon in North America and can grow to 1. ...

Appearance

They have an ocean coloration of silvery blue green.

Spawning

Most Chum Salmon spawn in small streams and intertidal zones, especially among stalks of eelgrass. Some Chum travel more than 3,200 km (2,000 miles) up the Yukon River. Chum fry migrate out to sea from March through July, almost immediately after becoming free swimmers. They spend one to three years traveling long distances in the ocean. These are the last salmon to spawn (November to January). They die about two weeks after they return to the freshwater to spawn. They utilize the lower tributaries of the watershed, tend to build redds in shallow edges of the watercourse and at the tail end of deep pools. The female lays eggs in the redd, the male sprays sperm on the eggs, and the female covers the eggs with gravel. The female can lay up to 4000 eggs. Look up spawn in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... STREAMS is the Unix System V networking architecture. ... Eelgrass can refer to two different plants: Marine eelgrass - Zostera marina Freshwater eelgrass - Vallisneria americana This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Map of the Yukon River watershed The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. ...

Chum Salmon of a breeding season.

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Age

Chum can live from 3 to 7 years, and chum in Alaska mature at the age of 4 years.

Where they are found

The chum salmon is found in the north Pacific in the waters of Korea, Japan, and the Okhotsk and Bering seas (Kamchatka, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Khabarovsk Krai, Primorsky Krai), British Columbia in Canada, and from Alaska to San Diego in the United States. View of the Pacific Ocean from Oregon. ... Korea (Korean: 한국 or ì¡°ì„ , see below) is a geographic area, civilization, and former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. ... The Sea of Okhotsk (from the Russian Okhotskoe more) is a part of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula and the disputed Russo-Japanese Kurile Islands on the east, the Japanese island of Hokkaido to the south and the island of Sakhalin, the Amur province of Siberia... Satellite photo of the Bering Sea Bering Sea and the North Pacific Ocean Bearing Sea with Kamchatka Peninsula and Alaska The Bering (or Imarpik) Sea is a body of water north of, and separated from, the north Pacific Ocean by the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands. ... Kamchatka is the home of many volcanoes. ... Location of Kuril Islands in the Western Pacific. ... Location of Sakhalin in the Western Pacific Sakhalin, GOST transliteration Sahalin, (Russian: , Korean: Traditional Chinese: 庫頁島; Simplified Chinese: 库页岛; pinyin: kùyèdÇŽo Japanese: 樺太 romaji: karafuto), also Saghalien, is a large elongated island in the North Pacific, lying between 45° 50 and 54° 24 N. It is part of the Russian... Khabarovsk Krai (Russian: ) (1995 pop. ... Administrative center Vladivostok Area - total - % water Ranked 26th - 165,900 km² - negligible Population - Total - Density Ranked 26th - est. ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Official languages English de facto (none stated in law) Flower Pacific dogwood Tree Western Redcedar Bird Stellers Jay Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 36 6 Area... Official language(s) English Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Area  Ranked 1st  - Total 663,267 sq mi (1,717,855 km²)  - Width 808 miles (1,300 km)  - Length 1,479 miles (2,380 km)  - % water 13. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Americas Finest City Location Location of San Diego within San Diego County Coordinates , Government County San Diego Mayor City Attorney         City Council District One District Two District Three District Four District Five District Six District Seven District Eight Jerry Sanders (R) Michael Aguirre Scott Peters Kevin...

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Sizes

Adult chum usually weigh from 4.4 to 6.6 kg, with an average length of 60 cm. The record for chum is 13 kg and 102 cm.

What they eat

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Commercial use and value

The chum salmon is the least commercially valuable salmon. Despite being extremely plentiful in Alaska, commercial fishers often choose not to fish for them because of their low market value. Markets developed for chum from 1984 to 1994 in Japan and northern Europe which increased demand, though. They are a traditional source of dried salmon. A fisherman in central Chile A Long Island fisherman cleans his nets A fisherman (in recent years sometimes called a fisher to be non-gender specific), is a person who engages in the activity of fishing. ... World map showing Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is one of the six inhabited continents of the Earth. ...

Artificially-incubated chum salmon

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Conservation

In areas other than Alaska there are few groups of healthy chum remaining. This is partially because of dams, which block the free flow of the water and the migration of the fish. DAMS is a racing team from France, involved in many areas of motorsports. ...

Susceptibility to diseases

Chum are thought to be pretty resistant to whirling disease, but it is unclear. Whirling disease is a parasitic infection that causes disease in North American cold water fish species, namely trout. ...

See also

• Salmon
• Coho salmon
• Pink salmon
• Trout
• Chinook salmon

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References

• Oncorhynchus keta (TSN 161976). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 24 January 2006.
• "Oncorhynchus keta". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. 10 2005 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2005.
• Encarta Encyclopedia 2004
• Alaska Department of Fish and Game