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kokanee

[< Interior Salish kikinee]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a dwarf landlocked salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka kennerlyi, native to southern British Columbia.

See: kickininee,little red fish,redfish(def. 1),silver trout(def. 2)

Quotations

1937

The Kokanee or "Silver Trout," which is in reality a landlocked Sockeye salmon abounds in the larger lakes of the district. . . .

1964

Officials say there isn't enough experience on record to predict for certain the reaction of kokanee to water the size of the Great Lakes.

1966

. . . here live some of the largest rainbow trout in the world . . . along with the kokanee on which the rainbows feed themselves to their fine, fat, fit condition.