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sockeye

[ UK /sˈɒka‍ɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
  2. fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers

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  • Although the council has already certified several B.C. fisheries, such as hake, halibut and Fraser sockeye (the latter particularly disputed by some environmental groups) as sustainably managed, the dogfish is proving trickier. Canada.com Top Stories
  • Where salmon fishermen once enjoyed sockeye, silver, and chum seasons from July through December, they can now fish only for chum, and the season lasts a scant four or five days.
  • At different times of the year, the Campbell hosts all five species of Pacific salmon: chinook, coho, chum, sockeye, pink - and even the odd Atlantic salmon escaped from a nearby fish farm.
  • 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
  • Each run of Pacific chinook, coho, sockeye, pink, and chum salmon knows how to survive in a specific spawning stream.
  • Once the $325 million project is completed, locals will greet returning pink, Chinook, Coho, chum and Sockeye salmon—as well as the animals that rely on them, like black bears and bald eagles.
  • The sockeye are very similar to kokanee salmon, which do not migrate and spend their entire lives in Redfish Lake.
  • Construction timing, geared toward the beginning of 2005, coincides with the birth and early life cycles of sockeye, chinook and coho salmon, steelhead and sea-running cutthroat trout.
  • King salmon run from mid-May into June; sockeye follow from early June through July; and silver run from late July through September.
  • Only a few fresh fish and four premiumfrozen seafood products under its "Sensations by Compliments" label - wild sockeye salmon, wild Pacific halibut, wild albacore tuna and wild black cod, whichare certified by the eco-labelling group Marine Stewardship Council The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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