hunchback salmon

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a species of Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, characterized by pinkish flesh.

Quotations

1835

. . . they were all the hunch back salmon and so poor and bad that but few of them were eatable.

1859

The hunchback salmon is regularly intermittent in its visits, only coming to fresh water every second season.