Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Author Love, Milton S. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu Author Bizzarro, Joseph J. 0000-0002-2412-9357 joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov Author Cornthwaite, Maria 0000-0002-1528-3272 maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Author Frable, Benjamin W. 0000-0003-4525-0671 bfrable@ucsd.edu Author Maslenikov, Katherine P. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum, 1792) . Blueback, Red Salmon, or Sockeye Salmon . To 84 cm ( 33.1 in ) TL ( Coad 1995 ). Northern Japan and Sea of Okhotsk to Point Hope, Chukchi Sea, Alaska to Malibu Point, southern California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) with strays along Arctic Alaska and Canada coasts to Bathurst Inlet ( Craig and Haldorson 1986 ) and northward to Sachs Harbour, Banks Island ( Stephenson 2006 ); across Pacific Ocean north of about 40°N . Depth: surface to 83 m ( 272 ft ) ( Walker et al. 2007 ). Anadromous and freshwater populations. Range of the nonanadromous (freshwater) form, called Kokanee, not included here.