Chinook Salmon

• It is the largest of the Pacific salmon, which is why it is called the king salmon.
• The longest upstream journey ever documented in a salmon was made by a chinook: 3,845 km to its spawning grounds.
• It was introduced into Lake Michigan so successfully that it created a new sport fishery there after lake trout collapsed under sea lamprey predation.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bony fish)

Habitat and environment

Cold, fast rivers with coarse gravel for spawning, estuaries as a transit zone and the open sea for adult life; at sea, between 0 and 375 m, at 0-25 °C

Sexual maturity

4 years

Sources consulted: Wikipedia (es): Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

The pins mark the parks and dive sites where its presence is documented.