chinook
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Soto watched as a group of men wearing wetsuits, masks and snorkels swam in Wooley Creek, a tributary of the Salmon River, searching in the clear water for juvenile chinook and coho salmon.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2024
Most years, fishing crews fan out in boats along the California coast to catch fall-run chinook, the most numerous variety.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2024
This year, the Park fire, which burned through Mill and Deer creeks in the Central Valley, has threatened what Martin called some of last strongholds for endangered spring-run chinook salmon.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2024
Soto, who has worked for the tribe for more than two decades, said that 15 years ago, it wouldn’t have been difficult to find chinook salmon here in Wooley Creek.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2024
He and Harry Secor had worked together to stalk the giant chinook salmon of the Dungeness River.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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