DCHP-3

Atlantic salmon

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1

a large salmon, Salmo salar, native to the Atlantic Ocean, which enters many of the rivers draining into that ocean and which is much prized as a game and food fish.

Quotations

1951
[He had] spent some of his springs fishing for trout and Atlantic salmon in the . . . northeast. . . .
1964
The Hudson's Bay Company . . . tried to revive . . . the Atlantic salmon industry, which had brought it more profit than the fur trade. . . .
2

a species of small fresh-water salmon, Salmo salar ouananiche, native especially to Lake St. John and certain other lakes in Ontario and Quebec.

Quotations

1965
The two taken last May were found in a hoop net being used by Lands and Forests biologists studying Atlantic Salmon (also known as ouananiche or landlocked salmon) in Trout Lake.