Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The most important salmon of Alaska (Oncorhinchus nerka), ascending in spring most rivers and lakes from Alaska to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; -- called also red salmon, redfish, blueback, and sawqui.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The most abundant salmon of Alaska, Oncorhynchus nerka, found from the Klamath and Rogue rivers northward to Kamchatka and Japan. Also called red salmon, redfish, blueback, and sawqui.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The species name nerka was given to anadromous sockeye (big redfish) and the name kennerlyi to kokanee (little redfish).
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Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) is also known in as Red or Blueback Salmon.
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Growth rate and body composition of fingerling sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, in relation to temperature and ration size.
Approaches to projecting climate change effects on arctic fish populations
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Bio-transport of organic pollutants to an inland Alaska lake by migrating Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka).
Potential impacts of indirect mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic
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First records of sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) and pink salmon (O. gorbuscha) from Banks Island and other records of Pacific salmon in Northwest Territories, Canada.
Potential impacts of indirect mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic
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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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The eagles are attracted by the sockeye Oncorhynchus nerka, at the Kurilskoye Lake which is the largest spawning ground in the world for this species of salmon.
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Over 237 fish species occur, including all five species of Alaskan pacific salmon: chum Oncorhynchus keta, red O. nerka, silver O. kisutch, pink O. gorbuscha, and king O. tshawytscha.
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The large rivers of Otago and Canterbury are now also populated by introduced sport-fish such as brown trout (Salmo trutta), rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), quinnat salmon (O. tshawytscha), and sockeye salmon (O. nerka).
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The Redfish Lake sockeye salmon is not a species in its own right; it is part of the species Oncorhynchus nerka, and as a whole, O. nerka is not endangered.
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