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Sockeye/Red Salmon

Post by Big D » Tue Aug 31, 2010 3:34 am

Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), also called red salmon or blueback salmon, is an anadromous species of salmon found in the Northern Pacific Ocean and rivers discharging into it. There are also completely landlocked populations of the same species, which are known as the kokanee. Sockeye salmon is the third most common Pacific salmon species, after pink and chum salmon. The name "sockeye" is believed to be a folk adaptation of the anglicization of s??´q?y?, its name in Halkomelem, the language of the indigenous people along the lower reaches of the Fraser River.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockeye_salmon
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/a ... ye-salmon/
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