salmon
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Bryant said he hoped the work would help "right some wrongs" that affected not just eel numbers but also salmon and trout in rivers.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
"When a dam blocks stream passage, threatened and endangered salmon suffer; when forests with nesting trees for marbled murrelets are logged, threatened murrelets slide closer to extinction," the complaint said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Over a dinner featuring steaks, salmon and burrata salad, Graham toasted Scott Bessent—Trump’s Treasury secretary and a fellow South Carolinian, who traveled to Ankara on Air Force One with the president.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
A report from Earthjustice estimates that expanded oil drilling in California could threaten five marine species including humpback whales, sea otters, leatherback sea turtles, marbled murrelets and wild salmon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
A grizzled beard and yellow rain boots as he pulled up a net full of tuna or salmon or whatever.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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 taken, however, by Thor, who caught him by the tail, and compressed it so, that all salmons ever since have had that part remarkably thin.
From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by White, Catherine Ann
There is a river in Macedon; there is also, moreover, a river in Monmouth: 'tis as like as my fingers to my fingers, and there is salmons in both!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various
How many rabbits and salmons had he laid low that week?
From A Bayard From Bengal Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,... by Jabberjee, Hurry Bungsho
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