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salmon

[sam-uhn] / ˈsæm ən /




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Still, I quickly got a seat at the hopping bar and ordered from the Latin fusion menu, choosing Peruvian-style salmon with purple potatoes in mango-guajillo salsa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Another cause for concern was that monitoring has found declines in young salmon.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

The high-tech surveillance program run by Mowi, the world’s biggest Atlantic salmon producer, is part of a growing industrywide effort to keep the fish alive for longer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

More than 14% of farmed Atlantic salmon died last year in Norway before they reached maturity, according to the Norwegian Veterinary Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

As a salmon he was fairly safe, he knew.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

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

My footboy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, Knots, goodwits, lampreys.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various

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

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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