Red Salmon Never Get The Blues Live! at Calm Creek, Alaska. If You Likee please rate comment and share with all your friends and fiends! click more share options send to all contacts. Get em all Down and Out with the Red Salmon Blues! Music: Keeping the Shiny Side Up – Cook County Blues Band Live – free concert show, i think about eight or ten years ago (Justin Smith – teen blues wizard) filmed in my back yard alaska 8-14-08 www.nmfs.noaa.gov The size of an adult returning to spawn may measure up to 2.8 feet (86 cm) in length and weigh an average of 8 pounds (3.6 kg).The adult spawners are unique in appearance. They typically turn bright red, with a green head; hence they are commonly called “red” salmon in Alaska. During the ocean and adult migratory phase, sockeye often have a bluish back and silver sides, giving rise to another common name, “bluebacks.” The name “sockeye” is thought to have been a corruption of the various Indian tribes’ word “sukkai.” Adults migrate from a marine environment into freshwater streams and rivers or lakes of their birth in order to mate (called anadromy). They spawn only once and then die (called semelparity). Sockeye salmon exhibit a wide variety of life history patterns that reflect varying dependency on the freshwater environment. With the exception of certain river-type and sea-type populations, the vast majority of sockeye salmon spawn in or near lakes, where the juveniles rear for 1 to 3 years prior to migrating to sea. For this …
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