Salmon vs. Coho — What's the Difference?

Salmon is the common name for several species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae. Other fish in the same family include trout, char, grayling, and whitefish.

The coho salmon.

A large edible fish that is a popular sporting fish, much prized for its pink flesh. Salmon mature in the sea but migrate to freshwater streams to spawn.

An anadromus and semelparous salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, found in the coastal regions of the northern Pacific Ocean, used as a symbol by several Native American tribes.

Any of a number of fishes resembling the salmon.

Fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes

A pale pink colour

Small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes

Any of various large salmonid food and game fishes of the genera Oncorhynchus and Salmo of northern waters, having pink or red flesh and characteristically swimming from salt to fresh water to spawn.

The flesh of a salmon, used as food.

A yellowish pink to light or reddish orange.

One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.

A meal or dish made from this fish.

A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.

The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.

(Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)

Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.

To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.

Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera. The common salmon (Salmo salar) of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important species. They are extensively preserved for food. See Quinnat.

A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon.

Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon.

Any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn

A tributary of the Snake River in Idaho

Flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae