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Sockeye salmon
Euryhaline fish (marine and freshwater) with regularly ossified skeleton. Body elongate, becoming deeper with age, spawning males a little hump-backed. Tip of upper jaw reaching well behind eye; snout and lower jaw becoming hooked and teeth enlarged in spawning males. Red salmon are blue tinged with silver in color while living in the ocean. When they return to spawning grounds, their bodies become red and their heads turn green.
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Oncorhynchus nerka
Blue fish
- Area 18: the Arctic Ocean
- Area 2: America
- Area 4: Asia - Inland waters
- Area 5: Europe - Inland waters
- Area 6: Oceania - Inland waters
- Area 61: the Northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean
- Area 67: the Northeastern part of the Pacific Ocean
- Area 77: the Eastern Central part of the Pacific Ocean
- North - Inland waters
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