red salmon

Pacific Coast

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a species of Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, that ranges from Alaska to Japan.

Quotations

1859

Several parties on the Fraser river have given up fishing for this season, owing to the red salmon not striking in.

1964

Unable to meet their quotas with mature red salmon, the Japanese mothership fleet moved back toward the abstention line. . . .