How to Use sockeye salmon in a Sentence
sockeye salmon
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Right now that’s sockeye salmon, Alaskan cod and Alaskan black cod.
—Abigail Abesamis Demarest, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
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The Big Ten gutted the Pac-12 like a bear ripping open sockeye salmon.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 1 July 2022
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How to cook sockeye salmon Wild salmon can dry out faster than the fat-marbled farmed stuff.
—Amanda Shapiro, Bon Appétit, 8 Aug. 2023
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Their smoked sockeye salmon makes for a great souvenir.
—Kathleen Squires, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
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Bristol Bay produces about half of the world’s sockeye salmon.
—Becky Bohrer, The Seattle Times, 2 July 2018
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That compares to a statewide average of just $0.76 a pound for sockeye salmon last year.
—Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2021
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The mission: to catch some of the abundant sockeye salmon for their own consumption.
—Anne Raup, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2022
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Those were for the Pacific cod and sockeye salmon fisheries in 2018.
—Janet McConnaughey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2019
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The harvest of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon, a long-running annual—130 years old—event is set to break records this month.
—Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes, 25 July 2022
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The sockeye salmon harvest in the Bristol Bay area of Alaska is expected to be among the largest on record.
—New York Times, 18 July 2022
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In all, more than 600 sockeye salmon reached Lower Granite Dam this year.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2021
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Anglers will soon be able to catch more Russian River sockeye salmon — and just in time for the weekend.
—Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2019
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The daily bag limit remains two fish per day, but now one or two can be sockeye salmon.
—oregonlive, 30 June 2022
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Most of that fat comes from chowing down on sockeye salmon, which pack thousands of calories each.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2020
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Bristol Bay is the heavyweight in the wild sockeye salmon world; more than three quarters of the sockeye harvested in the state come from there.
—Elizabeth Earl, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2020
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One hundred miles farther southwest is Bristol Bay, home to the world’s largest run of wild sockeye salmon.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2019
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Bristol Bay sockeye salmon returned in record numbers this season, and while much of the focus is on the bumper year in the Bay, all is not rosy statewide.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2021
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For all you trivia buffs, the answer is four: white sturgeon, bull trout, burbot and sockeye salmon.
—Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 19 Feb. 2018
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The mine would have jeopardized the region’s salmon fishery, which brings thousands of jobs to the area and supplies about half the world’s sockeye salmon, Reynolds said.
—Becky Bohrer, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
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The sockeye salmon is wild-caught by a network of Native Alaskan fishermen.
—goodhousekeeping.com, 18 Apr. 2023
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In Alaska, pink and sockeye salmon are the primary species, followed by chums.
—Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2018
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At this time of year, a dominant bear in a quality fishing spot can catch up to 30 sockeye salmon in a day.
—Emily M. Eng, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
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Bristol Bay is home to the largest wild sockeye salmon run in the world and typically accounts for 42% of the world’s sockeye harvest.
—Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2021
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One drains into Lake Iliamna, Alaska's biggest, which has produced about one-fifth of the bay's sockeye salmon over the past 2 decades.
—Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 26 Sep. 2019
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More than 2,000 brown bears live in the park, which is also home to the largest run of sockeye salmon left on the planet, according to the National Park Service.
—Angela Owens, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
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What to do: Ranger Jack Ransom says fishing for coho or sockeye salmon can be excellent in the area.
—Erin Kirkland, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2018
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In lower temperatures the returning sockeye salmon hold in the bay for a few days.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2020
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The fish species in the study involved several types of wild Alaskan salmon: chinook, coho, pink and sockeye salmon, as well as rainbow trout.
—Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2018
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The fox was busy searching in the shallows for salmon carcasses – sockeye salmon that had died after spawning.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
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Fat bears exemplify the richness of this area, a wild region that is home to more brown bears than people along with the largest, healthiest runs of sockeye salmon left on the planet.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Oct. 2023
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