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Coho (Silver) salmon
Coho salmon, also known as Silver salmon or 'silvers,' are one of five species of Pacific salmon, and are found from the northern tip of Alaska to central California and inland along major western streams of the United States and Canada. The Coho resembles a Chinook (or King) salmon with a bright silvery body with dark bluish to black back and small black spots on the body above the lateral line and upper lobe of the tail only. Silver salmon have a distinctive black tail. Coho salmon do not feed once they have returned to their home stream to spawn, but will strike artificial lures out of aggression. Pacific salmon spawn only once and then die. The male salmon's lower jaw develops a hook, or kype, its teeth grow larger, and they turn a dark red the longer they are exposed to fresh water.
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Oncorhynchus kisutch
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