Can some help with salmon ID? This was one of the nature pics of the year but the front fin and eye are really throwing me off.

[wishiniwasfishin1]

I’ll post a link to the article. Is this fish already spawned out or close to it so just kind of drifting and the pic is from a random fin flare out?

Edit: here is a link to the article

Bear and Salmon Pictured Together in Canada's Best Nature Photos 2023

Canada's a great spot for nature photography.

petapixel.com

 

[Irishwolf]

I'd say a light female pink

 

[Foxsea]

A hot, Photoshop mess - clearly a hoax!

 

[Irishwolf]

it kinda looks like a cross between a brown trout and a pink.

 

[Alex_c]

female chumdinger all day

 

[eroyd]

Maybe a photoshop but this one of a spawning Orca chasing a bear on the Ash River is real!

I should note I have no idea who created this photo, but apparently it suckered a few citiots. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/unnatural-predator/

 

[Sharphooks]

female chumdinger all day

^^^^^^^^^^ this all day^^^^^^^^^Oncorhynchus Keta......in the common patois of the day.....a chumdinger

 

[Derby]

Maybe a photoshop but this one of a spawning Orca chasing a bear on the Ash River is real!
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that endangered killer whale just missed a not so endangered black bear...dang who says they just eat upper fraser chinooks