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fresh-run

British  

adjective

  1. (of fish) newly migrated upstream from the sea, esp to spawn

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Forty-eight pounds, full measure, the record salmon of the river—a deep thickset fish, whose gleaming silver sides and sharp teeth proved him fresh-run from the sea!

From Days Off And Other Digressions by Henry Van Dyke

In her right hand the woman carried a large tin bucket, half filled with fresh-run maple-sap.

From The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories by Charles Livingston Bull

And all the while Tom was swimming about in the river, with a pretty little lace collar of gills about his neck, as lively as a grig, and as clean as a fresh-run salmon.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

Imagine hundreds of lakes whose waters, fresh-run from snow-field and glacier, brilliantly reflect the odd surrounding landscape.

From The Book of the National Parks by Robert Sterling Yard

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