The kokanee salmon, also known as the kokanee trout, little redfish, silver trout, kikanning, Kennerly's salmon, Kennerly's trout, Himemasu or walla, is the nonanadromous form of the sockeye salmon. S
Kokanee salmon
Typical example of a landlocked freshwater male kokanee salmon during the spawn
Okanagan Lake is a lake in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada. The lake is 135 km long, between 4 and 5 km wide, and has a surface area of 348 km2.
Kokanee salmon
…significantly from region to region, with some populations showing distinct divergence, but others showing very little divergence. Studies done in Okanagan Lake in British Columbia and Lake Sammamish in Washington suggested that the genetic diversity between the lake-type sockeye and the kokanee marks the…
Peachland, British Columbia
Okanagan Lake winds between Kelowna (foreground) and Westbank (background).
SS Okanagan, with the Duke of Connaught on board, 1912
sternwheeler Aberdeen on Okanagan Lake, sometime between 1893 and 1895