salmon
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As the state has relied heavily on its water, native fish such as Chinook salmon, steelhead trout and longfin smelt have declined.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
In the Arctic Yukon, however, the cats occupied a very different ecological role as tertiary consumers and likely specialized in anadromous fish such as salmon.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
She’s even preparing her dinners in advance—medium-rare steak and salmon with sweet potato on the side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Those still open tend to have generators, menus priced in dollars and a clientele of well-connected Cubans, decked in salmon shirts and tassel loafers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
The mouse dropped the nut, which fell into the brook and was carried away, to be swallowed by a salmon.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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Shotter said that salmon sperm “is harvested from salmons without harming them.”
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2024
As a result, the state has been trucking millions of salmons raised at hatcheries to the ocean each year, bypassing the perilous downstream journey.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2021
These people are very skillful in fishery by which they obtain white fish as large as salmons.
From Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46 by William Henry Holmes
And these kinds of fishings are not only for small sea-fish, such as herrings, &c., but for great fish, as salmons, and not only for them but for royal fish....
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
My footboy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, Knots, goodwits, lampreys.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various
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