chinook
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Soto watched as a group of men wearing wetsuits, masks and snorkels swam in Wooley Creek, a tributary of the Salmon River, searching in the clear water for juvenile chinook and coho salmon.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2024
This year, the Park fire, which burned through Mill and Deer creeks in the Central Valley, has threatened what Martin called some of last strongholds for endangered spring-run chinook salmon.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2024
Fall-run chinook have already been entering the mouth of the river and are heading upstream.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2024
The team, part of the Karuk tribe’s fisheries program, was searching for juvenile chinook and coho salmon.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2024
He and Harry Secor had worked together to stalk the giant chinook salmon of the Dungeness River.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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