The sockeye salmon, also 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. T
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
Sockeye salmon
…km (1,000 mi). Their diet consists primarily of zooplankton. Sockeye salmon are semelparous, dying after they spawn. Some populations, referred to as kokanee, do not migrate to the ocean and live their entire lives in fresh water. The sockeye salmon is the third-most common Pacific salmon species, after pink…
Kokanee salmon
Typical example of a landlocked freshwater male kokanee salmon during the spawn