Fishing Species
Chum Salmon Fish Species Information
Chum Salmon bigfishtackle PM
| Label | Details |
|---|---|
| Scientific Fish Name: | Oncorhynchus keta |
| Other Fish Name: | dog salmon, Keta salmon, Silverbrite salmon |
| Regions Fished: | north Pacific, in the waters of Korea, Japan, and the Okhotsk and Bering seas (Kamchatka, Chukotka, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Khabarovsk Krai, Primorsky Krai), British Columbia in Canada, and from Alaska to Oregon in the United States. |
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| Additional Information: | The chum salmon is the least commercially valuable salmon. Despite being extremely plentiful in Alaska, commercial fishers often choose not to fish for them because of their low market value. Markets developed for chum from 1984 to 1994 in Japan and northern Europe which increased demand, though. They are a traditional source of dried salmon. |