Chinook Salmon Colorado. This particular run of chinook is a strain from the harrison river. Two world record salmon have been caught here coho and chinook both arriving in august.
By elizabeth pennisi oct. There are a few different runs of chinook salmon that enter our local rivers and the run we will be going over is the fall chinook run. Sea run fish are dark green to blue black on their heads and back and silvery to white on the sides and belly.
King salmon oncorhynchus tshawytscha also known as chinook salmon after the indigenous chinookan peoples of the pacific northwest is the largest species of wild north pacific salmon.
By elizabeth pennisi oct. The common length for chinook salmon is 70 cm 27 6 inches with the maximum recorded length for chinook salmon being 159 cm 50 inches. By elizabeth pennisi oct. The chinook salmon ʃ ɪ ˈ n ʊ k oncorhynchus tshawytscha is the largest species of pacific salmon as well as the largest in the genus oncorhynchus its common name is derived from the chinookan peoples other vernacular names for the species include king salmon quinnat salmon spring salmon chrome hog and tyee salmon the scientific species name is based on the russian common name.
