salmon
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Many migratory fish, such as trout and salmon, swim up smaller tributaries to lay their eggs in cleaner, gravel-bottomed, or cooler waters away from larger predators in the main river.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Opponents, including environmental activists and fishing advocates, urged the board to reject the permit, saying the reservoir would siphon too much water out of the Sacramento River and harm salmon and other native fish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Look, there’s nothing wrong with enjoying the occasional free steak or salmon dinner, provided you remember that you are a potential customer and the organizers will have dollar signs in their eyes.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
More than 14% of farmed Atlantic salmon in Norway died last year before reaching maturity, amounting to almost 55 million fish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
“Did you have salmon for dinner? It smells yummy.”
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
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
He was much surprised, however, to see her eat for supper eight salmons, besides a full grown ox and other delicacies, washing down the repast with proportionate draughts of mead.
From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by Catherine Ann White
The minute he heard of the chest in the sea, he thought of the salmons.
From Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland by Jeremiah Curtin
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
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