salmon
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In 1850, we are told, the Rhine was home to more than 300,000 tons of salmon; by 1950 “there were none left.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Those still open tend to have generators, menus priced in dollars and a clientele of well-connected Cubans, decked in salmon shirts and tassel loafers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
"The incident could have serious consequences for the river's salmon and sea trout populations for many years to come," added the club.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Menu offerings include appetizers such as Dungeness crab cakes and lobster corn dogs, and entrées such as crispy chicken Milanese, honey miso glazed salmon and a signature Skywalker Ranch Wagyu burger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
He could not wait to show me the salmon and the black bears, and everything in the Canadian wilderness that he had told me so much about.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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Shotter said that salmon sperm “is harvested from salmons without harming them.”
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2024
As a result, the state has been trucking millions of salmons raised at hatcheries to the ocean each year, bypassing the perilous downstream journey.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2021
Being, however, extremely slippery, he would have escaped had not Thor held him fast by the tail, and this is the reason why salmons have had their tails ever since so fine and thin.
From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson
How many rabbits and salmons had he laid low that week?
From A Bayard From Bengal Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,... by Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee
"Put me up a fig o' tobacker, a pound of tea, quart o' merlasses, ten pounds of crackers, hunk o' pork, and two cans of them salmons," he ordered.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day
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