Species profile

Pink salmon

Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Walbaum, 1792)

How we detect Pink salmon

Occurrence density

Where Pink salmon has been recorded

Public detection records in the British Isles.

Pink salmon or humpback salmon is a species of euryhaline ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae. It is the type species of the genus Oncorhynchus, and is the smallest and most abundant of the seven officially recognized species of salmon. The species' scientific name is based on the Russian common name for this species gorbúša (горбуша), which literally means humpie.