Chinook salmon are known to range as far north as the Mackenzie River and Kugluktuk in the central Canadian arctic. The name Tyee means Chinook over 30 pounds in British Columbia. Chinook are the largest of all Pacific salmon, frequently exceeding 30 lb (14 kg). Chinook salmon ( Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is also known in the USA as King or Blackmouth Salmon, and as Spring Salmon in British Columbia.
masou) is found only in the western Pacific Ocean in Japan, Korea and Russia and also landlocked in central Taiwan's Chi Chia Wan Stream. Pacific Ocean species Pacific species belong to the genus Oncorhynchus, some examples include Salmon are a part of the family Salmonidae, and many of the fish of this family are known as 'trout', which branches your question out even further.īut for the sake of simplicity, there are eight distinct kinds of salmonĪtlantic Ocean species Atlantic ocean species belong to the genus Salmo.
There are, in part, seven different kinds of salmon.
