Sockeye salmon

Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka )

The sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka ) or Sockeye Salmon ( Sockeye English; Russian Nerka, of which the scientific name is derived ) is a kind of living in Pacific salmon. It can be up to 90 cm long. In the sea it has a blue-green back and silver belly, in the waters on the land he has a bright green head, a red back and tail ( hence the name) and a silver belly.

The sockeye salmon arrives at the North American Pacific Coast from Alaska to the Sacramento River in California, on the coast of Asia from Anadyrbecken to Hokkaidō, especially on the east coast of Kamchatka, rare in the Okhotsk Sea ( the northern part of Sakhalin and East Coast ). As adult animals, the fish live in the open ocean. The salmon are born in lakes on the mainland, remain about a whole year there. Then they migrate to the sea - this process can take up to three years. There they stay for two to four years until they float back to their birth waters to spawn there and die.

Of all the Pacific salmon species of sockeye salmon has the highest economic value.