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pink salmon

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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

See: hone,hook-nosed trout,hunchback salmon,pink,humpback salmon

Quotations

1952

The humpback or pink salmon weighs, on the average, four pounds. Most of these fish are canned . . . but they are not so highly prized as the sockeye because of their less appealing colour.

1963

The cutthroats could start feeding on the first hatches of pink salmon fry in the sloughs and lower reaches of the rivers.