Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The vernacular name in Alaska and Kamchatka, and also the technical specific name, of a kind of salmon.
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Examples
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The species name kisutch “keez-utch” came about in the same circuitous way as the scientific names for the other Pacific salmon originating from the Koryak languages of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The species name kisutch “keez-utch” came about in the same circuitous way as the scientific names for the other Pacific salmon originating from the Koryak languages of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The species name kisutch “keez-utch” came about in the same circuitous way as the scientific names for the other Pacific salmon originating from the Koryak languages of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The species name kisutch “keez-utch” came about in the same circuitous way as the scientific names for the other Pacific salmon originating from the Koryak languages of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) is also known in the Silver Salmon.
Salmon decline in western North America~ historical context 2009
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On the John Day River in Oregon, fall chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and coho salmon (O. kisutch) appear to be extinct and spring chinook salmon and steelhead (O. mykiss) numbers have dropped precipitously.
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Recorded salmonid fish species include coastal cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki, steelhead trout O. mykiss, chinook salmon O. tshawyscha and coho salmon O. kisutch.
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Damming by introduced beaver of small streams used by coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) for spawning threaten some stocks.
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South Slough tributaries provide habitat for amphibians such as the Pacific giant salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus) and the red-legged frog (Rana aurora), and many contain populations of resident and anadromous fish, such coho salmon (Onchorhynchus kisutch).
South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Oregon 2008
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One watershed adjacent to the Bystrinsky Nature Park contains eleven species of salmonid fish, several being considered nationally threatened: king Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, silver O. kisutch, both resident and anadromous forms of sockeye salmon O. nerka and steelhead and rainbow trout Salmo mykiss, chum O. keta, pink O. gorbuscha and cherry salmon O. masu, Dolly Varden char Salvelinus malma, white-spotted char S. leucomaenis, and whitefish Coregonis ssp.
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