Chum Salmon

Habitat:

Have the largest natural range of any Pacific salmon; they are found around the north Pacific, in the waters of Korea, Japan, and the Okhotsk and Bering seas, British Columbia in Canada, and from Alaska to California in the United States. In North America they spawn from the Mackenzie River in the Arctic to as far south as Tillamook Bay, Oregon, although they were also reported in California. In fall 2017 a half dozen chum salmon were counted in Lagunitas Creek about 25 miles (40 km) north of San Francisco. In the open ocean chum salmon stay fairly high on the water column, rarely diving below 50 meters. Their typical swimming depths are 13 meters from the surface during the day, and 5 meters during the night.

Notes:

These fish were swimming up a salmon ladder that we toured at a hatchery. The ladder had a glass window making this photo possible.