Range and habitat Sockeye salmon

male spawning-phase sockeye

completely landlocked populations of same species known. sockeye live , reproduce in lakes , commonly called kokanee, red-fish name in sinixt interior salish language , silver trout in okanagan language. smaller anadromous variety , on 35 cm (14 in) long. in okanagan lake , many others, there 2 kinds of kokanee populations – 1 spawns in streams , other near lake shores. landlocked populations occur in yukon territory , british columbia in canada, as, in alaska, washington, oregon, california, new york, utah, idaho, montana, nevada, colorado, new mexico, , wyoming in united states. nantahala lake place in north carolina kokanee salmon found. fish, native western north america, stocked in nantahala lake in mid-1960s nc wildlife resources commission in attempt establish species forage fish other predator fishes in lake. stock has remained , become favorite target anglers.

in japan, landlocked variety termed black kokanee, or kunimasu in japanese, deemed extinct after 1940, when hydroelectric project made native lake in northern akita prefecture more acidic. species seems have been saved transferring eggs saiko lake, 500 kilometers south, however. fish has been treated subspecies of sockeye oncorhynchus nerka kawamurae, or independent species oncorhynchus kawamurae.