Sockeye salmon can be found in the Northern Pacific Ocean and the many rivers that feed into it. Red salmon, blueback salmon and kokanee are other common names for the sockeye. Kokanee refers to sockeye salmon that live and breed in landlocked bodies of water.
Kookanee Salmon a landlocked relative of the Sockeye.
Yes, Red salmon is also called Sockeye Salmon or Blueback salmon (in the USA).
what other animals live near a sockeye salmon
Red salmon (sockeye is a species of salmon)
Types of salmon.
It a salmon
Kristine Petersen has written: '1993 brood sockeye and chinook salmon reared and released at Rock Island fish hatchery complex facilities' -- subject(s): Sockeye salmon, Chinook salmon, Chinook salmon fisheries, Sockeye salmon fisheries, Hatchery fishes
The correct name for this salmon species is actually "sockeye salmon". Red salmon is just a nickname. The sockeye salmon in Alaska, which lives in streams, are red in colour. As their nickname suggests. Sockeye salmon that live in the ocean (not in Alaska's streams) are blue-tinged with silver. See the related link below.
Sockeye salmon like to feed on aquatic insects when they are in freshwater. When they migrate to the ocean, they feed on squid, fish, amphipods and copepods.
Sockeye Salmon live in the Pacific Ocean for 4 years
Harold J. Geiger has written: 'Northern Chatham Strait sockeye salmon' -- subject(s): Statistics, Sockeye salmon, Fish stock assessment, Fishery management, Sockeye salmon fisheries, Subsistence fishing
R. I. Clutter has written: 'Collection and interpretation of sockeye salmon scales' -- subject(s): Sockeye salmon, Scales (Fishes)