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salmon

[sam-uhn] / ˈsæm ən /




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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

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

They argued it will devastate threatened and endangered fish, including Chinook salmon, steelhead, green sturgeon, longfin smelt and Delta smelt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Mowi, the world’s biggest Atlantic salmon producer, used underwater cameras and blue-light lasers to help reach a 99.3% survival rate last year.

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

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

A settlement of "fish-skin" Indians was visited in the dog search, and Meares told us of natives who dressed in cured skins of salmons.

From South with Scott by Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, Baron Mountevans

Also we wanted not of fresh salmons, trouts, lobsters, and other fresh fish brought daily unto us.

From Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Edward Hayes


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