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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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Other animals in the top 10 species-by-species expenditures were the Steller sea lion, coho salmon, bull trout, sockeye salmon, red-cockaded woodpecker, pallid sturgeon, chum salmon, and right whale.
Sockeye and chum salmon can salvage a bad year; they are refreshing standbys.
Improving habitat for coho and chum salmon in the Abbotsford area of British Columbia and restoring streambanks there is the goal of Operation Creekshade.
 
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