: a commercially important Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) that is greenish blue above and silvery below when sexually immature and turns red with a greenish head when ascending rivers to spawn which it does chiefly from the Columbia northward
called also red salmon, sockeye
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In 1990, the Shoshone Bannock Tribes petitioned the federal government to list the Sawtooth Valley’s sockeye salmon as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act.
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Rocky Barker, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
The Katmai brown bears are famous for standing at Brooks Falls, catching sockeye salmon in their mouths to fatten up for the winter.
—Pilar Arias, Fox News, 4 Oct. 2023
The bears rely on the abundance of the sockeye salmon run within the Brooks River, a mile-and-a-half long stream that contains the largest concentration of brown bears on the planet, Moore said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
Back then, Graves worked at an oil refinery in California and fished for sockeye salmon in Alaska to raise funds for the restaurant.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Nov. 2023
The popularity of Fat Bear Week allows park officials to direct attention to conservation efforts in the region, especially for the sockeye salmon run on the Brooks River, which the bears rely on for sustenance.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023
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
Bristol Bay is home to the largest commercial sockeye salmon fishery in the world, estimated to provide half the global supply of sockeye salmon.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2023
Cook Inlet’s situation is different from some of the other disasters, though, because there are plenty of sockeye salmon in the area.
—Elizabeth Earl For Alaska Journal Of Commerce, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023
Rocky Barker, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
The Katmai brown bears are famous for standing at Brooks Falls, catching sockeye salmon in their mouths to fatten up for the winter.
—Pilar Arias, Fox News, 4 Oct. 2023
The bears rely on the abundance of the sockeye salmon run within the Brooks River, a mile-and-a-half long stream that contains the largest concentration of brown bears on the planet, Moore said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
Back then, Graves worked at an oil refinery in California and fished for sockeye salmon in Alaska to raise funds for the restaurant.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Nov. 2023
The popularity of Fat Bear Week allows park officials to direct attention to conservation efforts in the region, especially for the sockeye salmon run on the Brooks River, which the bears rely on for sustenance.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023
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
Bristol Bay is home to the largest commercial sockeye salmon fishery in the world, estimated to provide half the global supply of sockeye salmon.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2023
Cook Inlet’s situation is different from some of the other disasters, though, because there are plenty of sockeye salmon in the area.
—Elizabeth Earl For Alaska Journal Of Commerce, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023
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