Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Walbaum 1792)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Salmoniformes
- family
- Salmonidae
- genus
- Oncorhynchus
- species
- Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
description
Humpback Salmon or Pink Salmon. To 76 cm (2.5 ft) TL (Hart 1973). Northern Siberia to western Canada; North Korea and Japan to Beaufort Sea coast of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) and Canada (westwards to Sachs Harbor, Banks Island) (Stephenson 2006), and south to La Jolla, California; throughout North Pacific and Bering Sea north of about 40 ° N (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Successfully introduced in upper Great Lakes, and rivers of Norway and Russia (Pietsch and Orr 2019). Depth: maximum to 74 m (243 ft) (Walker et al. 2007); based on a bottom trawl collection, perhaps to 118 m (387 ft) (NWFSC-FRAM). Anadromous.