salmon
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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
Last week, we reported on the high-tech fight to save salmon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Another cause for concern was that monitoring has found declines in young salmon.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
“Those cutlets and that salmon were sent in yesterday,” I said.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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
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
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
My footboy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, Knots, goodwits, lampreys.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various
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