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chum salmon
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chum salmon

 or dog salmon

Lightly speckled North Pacific fish (Oncorhynchus keta) of the salmon family. The chum salmon ranges from the Mackenzie and Lena rivers in the southern Arctic southward to Japan and the Rogue River. Its weight averages about 10–12 lbs (4.5–5.5 kg). During the autumn spawning season it swims more than 2,000 mi (3,200 km) up the Yukon River.
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Thanks to three timber companies, the Craig Ranger District of the Tongass saved taxpayers as much as $100,000 and at the same time built a 165-foot fishway-fish ladder and flume-bypassing a 15-foot waterfall on Dog Salmon Creek.
Squiring salmon upstream by McIntosh, Paul / American Forests
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