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Meanings of sockeye in English
Catalan
salmó roig Spanish
salmón rojo 
Small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning.
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Examples for "sockeye salmon"
Examples for "sockeye salmon"
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Next month, scientists in Idaho will try to produce endangered sockeye salmon.
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According to the EPA, the Bristol Bay watershed supports the world's largest fishery of sockeye salmon.
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Until the early 1990s, about 8 million sockeye salmon returned each year to spawn.
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Flynn began fishing in Bristol Bay because the once-annual sockeye salmon harvest in Puget Sound is now held only every four years.
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Its development, near one of the biggest sockeye salmon fisheries on earth, has been fiercely opposed by environmentalists, native groups and fisherman for years.
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Toward the end of June the red salmon begin to run.
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I remember throwing a tin of red salmon on a fire.
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Let's find a good seafood restaurant and eat some red salmon.
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After the red salmon, come the humpbacks, and after the humpbacks, the dog salmon.
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Agate- red salmon and agate-green lobsters that turn a whole different, brighter red when you boil them.
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Stubby wanted to get in on the blueback salmon run again.
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You live up where the blueback salmon run, don't you, Jack?
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In the spring, when life takes on a new prompting, the blueback salmon shows first in the Gulf.
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"I'm trying to figure a way of getting some of those blueback salmon," Abbott said crisply.
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"You have been, and are now, paying more for blueback salmon than any buyer on the Gulf."
Usage of sockeye in English
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Next month, scientists in Idaho will try to produce endangered sockeye salmon.
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In some years, half of the Fraser's returning sockeye die before spawning.
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And the Fraser River canneries wonder why sockeye is getting scarce.
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The cannery opened five days in advance of the sockeye season on the Fraser.
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Great had been the "run," and the sockeye season was almost over.
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According to the EPA, the Bristol Bay watershed supports the world's largest fishery of sockeye salmon.
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Then we drifted into talk of the sockeye and of the hyiu chickimin the Indians would get.
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Until the early 1990s, about 8 million sockeye salmon returned each year to spawn.
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Snake River sockeye, which lay their eggs in lakes, in 1991 became the first salmon named to the U.S.
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We do sockeye, pink and chum salmon, roe herring, halibut, invertebrates, I say, and then pause, seeing her face fall.
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Five years ago, the researchers noticed that some Fraser sockeye appeared to show unusual signs of physiological stress while at sea.
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Flynn began fishing in Bristol Bay because the once-annual sockeye salmon harvest in Puget Sound is now held only every four years.
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After the steelhead season comes the sockeye blueback run, a salmon fishery unique to the Quinault reservation that has all but disappeared.
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The Bristol Bay region supports all five species of Pacific salmon found in North America, which include sockeye, Chinook, chum, coho and pink salmon.
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Its development, near one of the biggest sockeye salmon fisheries on earth, has been fiercely opposed by environmentalists, native groups and fisherman for years.
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The sockeye were counted between the lower Columbia's Bonneville Dam and McNary Dam, about 150 miles upstream, en route to the Snake River tributary.
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