sockeye salmon

[ sok-ahy ]

/ ˈsɒkˌaɪ /

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noun

an important food fish, Oncorhynchus nerka, inhabiting the North Pacific.

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Also called blueback salmon, red salmon, sockeye .

Origin of sockeye salmon

1865–70; sockeye, alteration (by folk etymology) of Halkomelem (Mainland dial.) sθə́qəỷ

Nearly every summer she takes part in a three-week expedition to fish for sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay.
Yup’ik fishing ancestry inspires Alaskan engineer and author|Julie Fox|October 27, 2021|MIT Technology Review
When the average person hears about putting a mega-mine in the spawning grounds and headwaters of the world’s last great sockeye salmon fishery, it doesn’t add up economically or ethically.
EPA to protect Alaska’s Bristol Bay, blocking major gold mine|Dino Grandoni, Josh Partlow|September 9, 2021|Washington Post
Chickens require significantly less land, water, and energy than all other meat options except farmed salmon.
The History of the Chicken: How This Humble Bird Saved Humanity|William O’Connor|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Plus, the Spey, one of the most famous salmon rivers in the world, bordered the south side of the estate.
Ester Elchies, The Estate Built By Whiskey||December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST

You will find one of the best places on earth to go salmon fishing.
Ester Elchies, The Estate Built By Whiskey||December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They are an undressed salad compared to a Pacific wild salmon.
What It Takes to Kill a Grizzly Bear|Doug Peacock|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The state of Idaho paid a bounty hunter to kill wolves in the Salmon River country.
What It Takes to Kill a Grizzly Bear|Doug Peacock|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I want to go into camp there in the early spring—have invited Hofer and one or two others for salmon-fishing.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
She had submitted to giving up the salmon, but the devil himself should not cheat her out of her dessert.
Skipper Worse|Alexander Lange Kielland
He allowed himself to be cut free from the salmon line and dragged behind a kind of housemaid's closet at the foot of the stairs.
The Weight of the Crown|Fred M. White
As we sat there, we heard noises, not very harmonious, interrupting the song of the salmon-fishers.
Mrs. Falchion, Complete|Gilbert Parker
No two classes of people could be more unlike than the salmon-fishers of Sunburst and the mill-hands and river-drivers of Viking.
Mrs. Falchion, Complete|Gilbert Parker