Market Name: Sockeye salmon, red (canned), blueback, quinalt
Scientific Name: Oncorhynchus nerka
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| Sockeye is found on both sides of the Pacific, from Puget Sound to Alaska, across the Aleutian archipelago to Russia, and south to northern Japan. The only sustainable sockeye runs south of Alaska are in the Fraser and Skeena rivers in British Columbia. U.S. vessels account for nearly 75 percent of the world's sockeye salmon production, which has escalated steadily since the 1980s, to nearly 200,000 tons per year. Alaska dominates the U.S. catch. One third of Alaska's entire salmon harvest, by weight, is sockeyes. Fishernen take sockeyes with seines and gillnets. This species is not farmed. About 95 percent of all frozen Alaska sockeye is exported to Japan, where it is the favored salmon species (in the United States, it is second to chinooks). Most canned sockeye exports go to the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands. |
Markets: US - Japan - Australia - Italy - Canada - France - China - Belgium - UK - France - Netherlands - Malaysia