Coho salmon

The coho salmon is a species of anadromous fish in the salmon family and one of the six Pacific salmon species. Coho salmon are also known as silver salmon and is often sold as medium red salmon.

Ocean-caught coho is prized as table fish, with a moderate to high fat content. For smoking, a cold-smoking process works best.

Coho salmon range across the North Pacific, from Hokkaido, Japan and eastern Russia around the Bering Sea to Alaska and south to Monterey Bay, California. They are anadromous, hatching in freshwater streams, maturing at sea, and returning to gravel beds to spawn. They have also been introduced to the Great Lakes.