Chum Salmon

Chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta), also called keta or dog salmon, is one of the most widely distributed Pacific salmon species, spawning across an enormous range from California to Alaska and across the Pacific to Japan and Korea. The flesh is paler and lower in fat than sockeye or king salmon, with a milder flavour, and it commands lower market prices than other Pacific salmon species. In tinned fish, chum salmon appears primarily in mass-market canned salmon products. The roe (ikura or keta caviar) is more commercially valuable than the flesh in many markets. Chum salmon is an important subsistence species for Indigenous communities throughout its range in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.