salmon
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"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
Jamie Stewart, from the River Tweed Commission, said: "Wild Atlantic salmon are already facing unprecedented pressures from climate change, habitat loss and poor marine survival."
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
The houses look like they were painted in sorbet—cream, minty green, mustard yellow and pretty salmon pink.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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
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 Holmes, William Henry
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 Hayes, Edward, fl. 1580.
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 Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron
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