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Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum, 1792)

Sockeye salmon
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Russian Federation country information

Common names: Karlikovaya nerka, Krasnaya, Nerka
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: commercial | Ref: Dgebuadze, Y.Y., 2016
Aquaculture: | Ref:
Regulations: | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: Both the sockeye and kokanee are known from Siberia (Ref. 27547). Found in Sakhalin (Ref. 37812). Occurs in the Anadyr River, Soldatskaya River (Ref. 43703), the rivers of Kamchatka, the rivers of the Okhotsk and of the Commader Is. (Ref. 593). This has been translocated to areas within the country for stocking in open waters. However, it failed to establish populations in areas where it has been transplanted to (Ref. 45022). Also Ref. 2850, 27436, 8984, 119200. nEurRus
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/rs.html
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Reshetnikov, Y.S., N.G. Bogutskaya, E.D. Vasil'eva, E.A. Dorofeeva, A.M. Naseka, O.A. Popova, K.A. Savvaitova, V.G. Sideleva and L.I. Sokolov, 1997
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Common names from other countries

Saumon rouge, Salmón rojo, 红大麻哈鱼, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Salmoniformes (Salmons) > Salmonidae (Salmonids) > Salmoninae
Etymology: Oncorhynchus: Greek, onyx, -ychos = nail + Greek, rhyngchos = snout (Ref. 45335);  nerka: nerka which is the Russian name for the anadromous form (Ref. 1998).
  More on author: Walbaum.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; freshwater; brackish; pelagic-oceanic; anadromous (Ref. 51243); depth range 0 - 250 m (Ref. 50550).   Temperate; 0°C - 25°C (Ref. 35682); 72°N - 42°N, 130°E - 109°W (Ref. 117423)

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