silver salmon

Pacific Coast

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a silvery salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, of the northern Pacific.

See: coho

Quotations

1884

I have seene fine silver salmon at the mouth of the Ya-koun River.

1907

They are . . . the silver and blue-back salmon, which are known as the cohoe and sockeye. . . .

1955

The main source of food supplies, for both men and dogs, was the silver salmon.