Oncorhynchus kisutch

Basic information
Scientific name	Oncorhynchus kisutch	(No picture)
Common names	Silver salmon, Coho salmon
Higher taxon	Salmonidae, Salmoniformes, Actinopterygii
Natural range	Primorsky, eastern Russia, and northern part of Sea of Japan, Okhotsk, Bering, Pacific coast of N America, to California.
Habitat	Rivers and ocean.

Invasion information
Range in Japan	Not established in Japan. Sometimes occur in Hokkaido.
Origin	USA
Date	Imported in 1973 from USA and released in 1974 to Hokkaido.
Route	Deliberate: As fishery resource
Impact	Unknown impact.
Regulation in Japan	Capture of this species is prohibited by Hokkaido local government.
Introduced range in other countries	Chile, France, Kerguelen Is., etc.

Reference	Notes
Froese & Pauly (eds) (2009) FishBase (Accessed on 2010-12-14) http://www.fishbase.org/ Kawanabe et al. (eds) (2002) Freshwater Fishes of Japan, 3rd ed.. Yama-kei Publishers, Tokyo (in Jpn) Matsuzawa & Senou (2008) Alien fishes of Japan. Bun-ichi Sogo Shuppan, Tokyo (in Jpn)