Chinook Salmon

The chinook salmon is blue-green on the back and top of the head with silvery sides and white bellies; black spots on the upper half of its body with gray/black mouth coloration. Up to 58 inches in length and weigh up to 129 pounds; although chinook salmon is generally up to 36 inches in length and weigh up to 30 pounds.

Sockeye Salmon

Silvery sides with a green or blue back and white tips on the ventral and anal fins. Sockeye have no large spots on back or tail, but some may have speckling on the back. The color gradually changes from silver with a dark back, to spawning colors dominated by a typical sockeye color pattern of a bright red body with green on the head and tail.

Pink Salmon

The pink salmon is metallic blue-green in the water from above and silvery from below; black spots on back and on the caudal fin. When spawning, males develop humped backs, hooked jaws and reddish-yellow sides. The females tend to be more greenish. Up to 30 inches in length and weigh up to 12 pounds; pink salmon usually weigh from 3 to 5 pounds.

Chum Salmon

A mature adult chum is usually about 25 inches in length and 10 pounds in weight. The snout is bluntly pointed but greatly extended, compressed and turned down in breeding males; the lower jaw is enlarged and turned up at the tip making it impossible to close this sharp toothed mouth. A steel-blue and the back and upper sides with fine black speckles turning into a silver-white on the belly characterize the chum.

Halibut

Halibut are more elongated than most flatfishes, the width being about one-third the length. Small scales are imbedded in the skin. Halibut have both eyes on their dark or upper side. The color on the dark side varies but tends to assume the coloration of the ocean bottom. The halibut taken by sport anglers are generally 15 to 20 pounds in weight, however fish over 150 pounds are frequently caught.

Pacific Cod

The Pacific cod is also known as grey cod. It is similar to the Atlantic cod, coloured brown to grey on the back, lighter on the sides, with a belly shading grey to white, and has the typical chin barbel of the cod. Typically 60 centimetres in length with a weight of 2.5 to 3.6 kilograms, the Pacific cod ranges the entire western coast of Canada.

Rock Cod

Rock cod are yellow-grey to red-brown with white fin margins.They have chin barbel. They may grow up to 50cm in lenght. They are found in caves in bays and coastal areas. They are frequently found inshore and inhabit shallow waters in the continental shelf with typical depth of 10m - 90m.

Ling Cod

This fish has a large head and it's length is up to 1 meter. It is recognised by its single long dorsal fin, large mouth and large teeth. The color is variable, bold, darker, mottling on many shades of brown, gray or green on back sides depending on environment. Some of the smaller individuals are strongly green with the colour permeating the flesh.