landlocked salmon†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any of various freshwater salmon; as the ouananiche and the kokanee.

Quotations

1888

The land-locked salmon is found in these waters, also the red and white charr.

1933

. . . the net which had been supplying us . . . with trout, landlocked salmon, and whitefish was gone. . . .

1965

. . . Lands and Forests notes that several areas . . . stock millions of smelt annually as a forage fish for the landlocked salmon.