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Sockeye

noun

Fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers. Synonyms: red salmon, sockeye salmon.

Small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning. Synonyms: blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye salmon.

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... as a thousand miles," was the reply. "The quinnat and blue back—or the spring and the sockeye, as they are generally known, take the long journeys, but the silver or coho, and the humpback and dog salmon keep to the small streams near the sea. The young fry cannot live in salt water and the instinct of the salmon is to swim up-stream as far as possible, no matter what ...

— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler