plural cohos or coho
: a rather small Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) that has light-colored flesh and is native to both coasts of the North Pacific and is stocked in the Great Lakes
called also coho salmon, silver salmon
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Massive amount of forage fish Before last year, the previous coho record had been held for 53 years with little variation in size.
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John Myers, Twin Cities, 11 June 2024
From the visitor center’s outdoor platform, visitors can watch the spectacle of salmon and other fish swimming up a fish ladder — steelhead and sockeye salmon in early summer and chinook and coho salmon in September.
—Ben Davidson, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024
Austin Stoltenberg, 12, of Cherry, caught a 12.36-pound coho salmon June 1 off Duluth that appears to be a new state record, smashing the 10.92-pound previous record coho set on Labor Day 2023 by David Cichosz, of Wabasha, Minnesota.
—John Myers, Twin Cities, 11 June 2024
The Cowichan was the perfect habitat for chinook, chum and coho salmon, which could gorge on insects and swim in cool water shaded by trees.
—Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
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John Myers, Twin Cities, 11 June 2024
From the visitor center’s outdoor platform, visitors can watch the spectacle of salmon and other fish swimming up a fish ladder — steelhead and sockeye salmon in early summer and chinook and coho salmon in September.
—Ben Davidson, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024
Austin Stoltenberg, 12, of Cherry, caught a 12.36-pound coho salmon June 1 off Duluth that appears to be a new state record, smashing the 10.92-pound previous record coho set on Labor Day 2023 by David Cichosz, of Wabasha, Minnesota.
—John Myers, Twin Cities, 11 June 2024
The Cowichan was the perfect habitat for chinook, chum and coho salmon, which could gorge on insects and swim in cool water shaded by trees.
—Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
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“Coho.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coho. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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