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Pink salmon

Pink salmon belongs to the species of Pacific salmon. In another call pink salmon pink salmon or Latin name Oncorhynchus gorbusha. Pink salmon is in transition, lives directly in the sea and spawn in rivers. For salmon is considered the optimum temperature of 10 degrees, with a water temperature of 25 degrees salmon die.

She lives in the cold Pacific and north-arctic waters, where the water of 5 – 14 degrees.

Appearance of pink salmon

On the body is dominated by pink light blue shades. In the spawning period of the rear of the calf becomes a pale gray and the belly is yellow-white (sometimes greenish). During spawning, the male appears rather large hump, it is this feature and gave the name to this type of salmon.

There is a characteristic pink to salmon feature – an additional fin between the dorsal and caudal fins.

The mouth is white and no teeth on the tongue, on the back oval spot, the tail V-shaped anal fin with a large number of rays.

The approximate dimensions of 76 cm and salmon 7 kg, the average weight of 2 kg.

Features pink

Spawning begins in August. In July, she walks into the river and builds a nest for spawning. After spawning large individuals die.

In November, the fry emerge. Early in life, they are growing in the same ground where the hatched. Feed the fry substances from the yolk sac. By the end of spring fry begin to leave the nest and go into the sea, driven by the current. At this point, they grow to 30 mm. Color at this time they have solid, silver. During the transition into the sea most of the fry die, the reason is a predatory fish and birds.

Pink salmon is delicious and fatty fish. salmon meat contains a lot of protein.
Video of salmon going to spawn

Catch the pink salmon at Zavidovo, in the waters of Lake Balkhash will not work, because she loves the cold sea water, and the area of ​​its habitat is not in the waters of lakes in Kazakhstan. However, to buy it, you can almost always fish on the shelves of shops.