Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum, 1792)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 53

Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum, 1792) .

Blueback, Red Salmon, or Sockeye Salmon. To 84 cm (33.1 in) TL ( Coad 1995). Northern Japan and Sea of Okhotsk to Point Hope, Chukchi Sea, Alaska to Malibu Point, southern California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) with strays along Arctic Alaska and Canada coasts to Bathurst Inlet ( Craig and Haldorson 1986) and northward to Sachs Harbour, Banks Island ( Stephenson 2006); across Pacific Ocean north of about 40°N. Depth: surface to 83 m (272 ft) ( Walker et al. 2007). Anadromous and freshwater populations. Range of the nonanadromous (freshwater) form, called Kokanee, not included here.