{"id":358405,"date":"2026-03-18T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=358405"},"modified":"2026-03-18T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:51:08","slug":"japanese-chum-salmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/japanese-chum-salmon\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Chum Salmon\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Research showed that marine conditions in the North Pacific have significantly reduced suitable habitat for Japanese chum salmon over the past 25 years.<\/p>\n<h2>About Japanese Chum Salmon<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/p.potaufeu.asahi.com\/3f81-p\/picture\/28767277\/0bf4d795530f09868b3e536ea14fd78a.jpg?resize=660%2C255&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Chum salmon \" width=\"660\" height=\"255\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: asahi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Japanese chum salmon is a<strong> migratory fish species of Chum salmon. <\/strong>They are commonly known as <strong>\u201cshirozake&#8221; <\/strong>in<strong> Japan.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Distribution:<\/strong> They are the<strong> most widely distributed of all the Pacific salmon<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>They are <strong>found throughout the North Pacific Ocean and range from the Arctic coast of Canada<\/strong> and<strong>\u00a0northern coastal regions of North America and Asia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Appearance:<\/strong> They are recognized by their<strong> silvery sides and faint vertical stripes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are<strong> anadromous <\/strong>and<strong> do not reside in fresh water<\/strong> for an <strong>extended period.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Anadromous fishes<\/strong> are those that<strong> spawn in fresh water, migrate to the ocean to forage and mature, and return to fresh water to spawn and begin the cycle again.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Threats:<\/strong> The main threats to their survival includes <strong>ocean warming, r<\/strong><strong>educed zooplankton and m<\/strong><strong>arine heatwaves <\/strong>which create <strong>stressful and unfavorable conditions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Their poleward shift<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are<strong> moving northward expanding into higher-latitude waters<\/strong> <strong>toward the Chukchi Sea<\/strong> as <strong>they lose suitable habitats<\/strong> along the<strong> southern edge of the North Pacific and the Gulf of Alaska. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">This <strong>\u201cpoleward shift\u201d<\/strong> suggests that <strong>climate change is impacting the marine environment on which they rely on for survival. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Research showed that marine conditions in the North Pacific have significantly reduced suitable habitat for Japanese chum salmon over the past 25 years. About Japanese Chum Salmon Japanese chum salmon is a migratory fish species of Chum salmon. They are commonly known as \u201cshirozake&#8221; in Japan.\u00a0 Distribution: They are the most widely distributed of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/japanese-chum-salmon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japanese Chum Salmon\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12039,11834],"tags":[11872,10504],"class_list":["post-358405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","category-species-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-down-to-earth","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}