DCHP-3

herring salmon

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a widely distributed North American food fish, Coregonus sp., especially C. clupeaformis.

Quotations

1849
On taking up our nets (which we laid carefully on the rocks for the Eskimos), they were found full of herring-salmon, in fine condition.
1866
The absence of teeth . . . and the presence of the adipose fin in this fish, place it among the Coregoni, and I believe it to be the C. Clupeiformis described by Cuvier under the local name of "Herring Salmon."
1880
The herring white-fish . . . is caught in abundance at the mouths of the Nelson and Hayes rivers. . . .