coho

[prob. of native origin]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a silvery salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, of the northern Pacific.

Quotations

1808

[However our Indian Guides say . . . that the large salmon (Cace) already begin to come up.]

1859

Lastly, there is the genus known by the Indian name of coocouse a hybrid bastard sort of fish, half trout, half salmon.

1869

The second of salmon in class is the Cohose, which comes in September and continues to run until November.

1926

Overhead expenses could be made from the coho pack but sockeyes signified success. . . .

1963

Peculiar how the fish run to sexes. First five cohoes I caught were cockfish; all the rest but one have been hens.