chinook

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Spring chinook, the river's most valuable fish pound for pound, are important to the tribes 'diet and commercial harvest as well as to sport fishermen and nontribal commercial fishermen.

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  1. noun A moist warm wind blowing from the sea in coastal regions of the Pacific Northwest.
  2. noun A warm dry wind that descends from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, causing a rapid rise in temperature.

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  • A "chinook," a warm winter wind, howled fiercely around the house, a lonely sound like that of a lost soul. —  Dummy1.htm
  • The men from the Forest of Dean had played well into the teeth of a typical Corbridge chinook, and were widely expected to do better in the second period. —  HX News and Sport
  • Record exports of water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta coincided with major declines in chinook, a factor that environmentalists and fishing representatives believe is the major culprit. —  SFGate: Top News Stories
  • But the fleet in 2007 also accidentally scooped up 120,000 chinook, and that level of bycatch triggered calls for a chinook limit that if surpassed would trigger an early shutdown of the pollock harvest. —  The Seattle Times
  • * Winter steelhead and a few spring chinook should be available on the lower Columbia for boat and bank anglers.
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