Species: Oncorhynchus kisutch pop. 5

Coho Salmon - Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia
Species
Fishes

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Are we making progress on salmon recovery?

In recent decades, hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent to restore habitat for Puget Sound salmon. In this article, we look at how scientists are gauging their progress. Are environmental conditions improving or getting worse? The answer may depend on where you look and who you ask.

Dean Toba, a scientific technician with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, operates the agency’s screw trap on the Skagit River. The trap helps biologists estimate the number of juvenile salmon leaving the river each year. Photo: Christopher Dunagan, PSI
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Salmoniformes

Family

Salmonidae

Genus

Oncorhynchus

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Classification
Informal Taxonomy
<p>Animals, Vertebrates - Fishes - Bony Fishes - Salmon and Trouts</p>
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Actinopterygii - Salmoniformes - Salmonidae - Oncorhynchus - Population 5 represents an evolutionarily significant unit (ESU) defined by the National Marine Fisheries Service as a population that: 1) is reproductively isolated from other conspecific population units, and 2) represents an important component in the evolutionary legacy of the biological species (National Marine Fisheries Service 1995). See NMFS (1995) for further information on how this element was defined as an evolutionarily significant unit (ESU) under the Endangered Species Act.
Short General Description
A salmon, not more than one meter long, that has pink or red sides during the breeding season.
Habitat Type Description
Freshwater
Migration
<p>false - false - true</p>
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G4T3Q
Global Status Last Reviewed
1998-09-03
Global Status Last Changed
1998-09-03
Other Status

<p>SC - SC: Species of concern - 2004-04-15</p>

Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Spawns in streams along a portion of the Pacific coast of North America, including drainages of Puget Sound and Hood Canal, the eastern Olympic Peninsula (east of Salt Creek), and the Strait of Georgia from the eastern side of Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland (excluding the upper Fraser River). Oceanic distribution includes waters off the Pacific Northwest (National Marine Fisheries Service 1995).
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