salmon
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"We've seen the Atlantic salmon return to the river and also the critically endangered European eel makes its way up the Mersey and into the River Gowy to breed each year as well," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
She serves her son, now 5, their favorite broiled salmon recipe a few times a week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Chinook salmon swim upstream first in the fall, and coho salmon usually start appearing in the Scott River to spawn in November.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The Scott River, which flows out of mountain forests into a broad valley near the California-Oregon border, provides vital habitat for salmon that swim upstream from the ocean to spawn in the fall and winter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
To his surprise, she held out a salmon cake to Wolf.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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
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
Though I am but small and slender on the beach of the foaming main, I shall do thee more good in the day of distress than three hundred salmons.
From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evan Evans
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