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Unalaska Wildlife Trooper Jeremy Baum said Tucker fished illegally in Unalaska’s Reese Bay — a popular subsistence area where locals harvest mostly red salmon.
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Hope McKenney, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Sep. 2023
Last year brought record catches of red salmon in Bristol Bay, but in the last few years along the 2,000-mile Yukon River, there are no longer enough kings or chum salmon to provide for Indigenous people who have fished them for thousands of seasons.
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Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 19 July 2023
Even the most experienced fishery biologists can’t tell a red salmon born in the Gulkana Hatchery from one that has lived its entire five-year life in the wild.
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Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 30 July 2022
Otis is standing knee deep in the glistening Brooks River, hoping to catch one of the many red salmon journeying upstream.
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Angela Owens, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
In late summer, a few months before this mossy valley will feel the sting of 40-below air, bright red salmon dart through a crystal-clear pool amid fragrant green vegetation.
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Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 30 July 2022
At the Gulkana Hatchery, a few people working for the Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corp. raise a brood of up to 35 million red salmon each year and release them into the Gulkana River system.
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Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 30 July 2022
Working as a team, all levels of government and private industry jointly kept community Covid outbreaks down while keeping the world’s largest commercial red salmon industry going.
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Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2022
The most popular variety is sockeye salmon, also called red salmon because of its beautiful deep red color.
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Noma Nazish, Forbes, 26 June 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1591, in the meaning defined above
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“Red salmon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/red%20salmon. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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