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Chinook
Salmon
The chinook salmon is blue-green on the back and top of the head with
silvery sides and white bellies; black spots on the upper half of
its body with gray/black mouth coloration. Up to 58 inches in length
and weigh up to 129 pounds; although chinook salmon is generally up
to 36 inches in length and weigh up to 30 pounds.
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Coho
Salmon
This species is usually 18-24 inches in length and 8-12 pounds in
weight. The head is conical with a snout bluntly pointed but greatly
extended, thickened and turned down in breeding males. These breeding
males are characterized by their inability to close their mouths.
Adults in the ocean are colored a steel-blue to slightly green with
silver sides, white bellies and small black spots on the back.
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Sockeye
Salmon
Silvery sides with a green or blue back and white tips on the ventral
and anal fins. Sockeye have no large spots on back or tail, but some
may have speckling on the back. The color gradually changes from silver
with a dark back, to spawning colors dominated by a typical sockeye
color pattern of a bright red body with green on the head and tail.
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Pink
Salmon
The pink salmon is metallic blue-green in the water from above and
silvery from below; black spots on back and on the caudal fin. When
spawning, males develop humped backs, hooked jaws and reddish-yellow
sides. The females tend to be more greenish. Up to 30 inches in length
and weigh up to 12 pounds; pink salmon usually weigh from 3 to 5 pounds.
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Chum
Salmon
A mature adult chum is usually about 25 inches in length and 10 pounds
in weight. The snout is bluntly pointed but greatly extended, compressed
and turned down in breeding males; the lower jaw is enlarged and turned
up at the tip making it impossible to close this sharp toothed mouth.
A steel-blue and the back and upper sides with fine black speckles
turning into a silver-white on the belly characterize the chum.
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Halibut
Halibut are more elongated than most flatfishes, the width being about
one-third the length. Small scales are imbedded in the skin. Halibut
have both eyes on their dark or upper side. The color on the dark
side varies but tends to assume the coloration of the ocean bottom.
The halibut taken by sport anglers are generally 15 to 20 pounds in
weight, however fish over 150 pounds are frequently caught.
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Pacific Cod
The Pacific cod is also known as grey cod. It is similar to the Atlantic
cod, coloured brown to grey on the back, lighter on the sides, with
a belly shading grey to white, and has the typical chin barbel of
the cod. Typically 60 centimetres in length with a weight of 2.5 to
3.6 kilograms, the Pacific cod ranges the entire western coast of
Canada.
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Rock Cod
Rock cod are yellow-grey to red-brown with white fin
margins.They have chin barbel. They may grow up to 50cm in lenght.
They are found in caves in bays and coastal areas. They are frequently
found inshore and inhabit shallow waters in the continental shelf
with typical depth of 10m - 90m.
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Ling Cod
This fish has a large head and it's length is up to 1 meter. It is
recognised by its single long dorsal fin, large mouth and large teeth.
The color is variable, bold, darker, mottling on many shades of brown,
gray or green on back sides depending on environment. Some of the
smaller individuals are strongly green with the colour permeating
the flesh.
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