sockeye
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of sockeye
by folk etymology from Salishan sukkegh
Example Sentences
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In the summer, the area is thronged by fishermen drawn to Bristol Bay for the world’s largest sockeye salmon run.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Whilst bears are generally solitary, this one was heading to feast with others on the glut of sockeye salmon migrating upriver from the Pacific to their origin lake to spawn.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025
The cans, set aside to monitor packaging integrity over time, contained chum, coho, pink, and sockeye salmon caught in the Gulf of Alaska and Bristol Bay from 1979 to 2021.
From Science Magazine ● May 7, 2024
The stable anisakid levels in coho and sockeye are harder to interpret because there are dozens of anisakid species, each with their own series of invertebrate, fish and mammal hosts.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2024
"They'll wiggle through legislation to prevent export of raw salmon," MacRae suggested; "same as they have on the sockeye."
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
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