white spring (salmon)

Pacific Coast

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a spring salmon, having white flesh.

Quotations

1869

There is also a white Spring Salmon, known by the name Pocke, used principally fresh for home consumption.

1958

The fisherman knew how long he could fish sockeye, then he could take in the chum salmon run in September, also the white springs.