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Overfishing—when we take fish out of their natural habitat at a rate too fast for them to keep up with in terms of replenishing the supply—has depleted wild populations of halibut, monkfish, tuna, and salmon, among others.

Masu salmon, the species most common in these rivers at this time of year, are among the smallest of all salmon.

The masu have the most constricted range of any Pacific salmon, largely confined to the Sea of Japan, around the island of Sakhalin, and in western Kamchatka.

You are made of Mill Creek water, the fruit from our trees, Swanton berries, and Pacific salmon.

Human activity has reduced the number of Chinook salmon, which is the favorite food of these orcas.

Chickens require significantly less land, water, and energy than all other meat options except farmed salmon.

Plus, the Spey, one of the most famous salmon rivers in the world, bordered the south side of the estate.

You will find one of the best places on earth to go salmon fishing.

They are an undressed salad compared to a Pacific wild salmon.

The state of Idaho paid a bounty hunter to kill wolves in the Salmon River country.

I want to go into camp there in the early spring—have invited Hofer and one or two others for salmon-fishing.

She had submitted to giving up the salmon, but the devil himself should not cheat her out of her dessert.

He allowed himself to be cut free from the salmon line and dragged behind a kind of housemaid's closet at the foot of the stairs.

As we sat there, we heard noises, not very harmonious, interrupting the song of the salmon-fishers.

No two classes of people could be more unlike than the salmon-fishers of Sunburst and the mill-hands and river-drivers of Viking.

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On this page you'll find 61 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to salmon, such as: apricot, peach, tangerine, titian, coral, and red-yellow.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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