How to Use chum salmon in a Sentence
chum salmon
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Also, for the second year in a row, the chum salmon return appears to be weak in the Alagnak River.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2021
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Below, dozens of brown bears dug clams, ate sedge grass and loped across tidal flats, ready for chum salmon to arrive.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2019
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Pinks made up the bulk of the pack, topping 57 million, followed by chum salmon at 9.4 million.
—Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2022
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At Kotzebue, two buyers showed up for the first time in three years and flew off with a half-million-pound chum salmon catch.
—Laine Welch, Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Oct. 2017
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Runs of kings and chum salmon on the Yukon have been so low that subsistence fishing for both have remained closed.
—Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2021
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The system also supports large numbers of pink and chum salmon.
—Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2020
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Ninety percent of that business is built on chum salmon.
—Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2021
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Pink and chum salmon by far make up most of Alaska's hatchery production.
—Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2018
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The majority of the chum salmon netted in bycatch turned out to be from Asia, according to the report.
—Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2022
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This year’s coupling of a king salmon crash with a chum salmon crash is unprecedented, Trainor said.
—Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Nov. 2020
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The king salmon run was also bad this year, but summer and fall chum salmon runs usually help make up the difference.
—Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Nov. 2020
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One key question is how Jones’ decision will affect trollers’ harvests of coho and chum salmon, which make up the rest of their catch.
—Max Graham and Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2023
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Now is the time when the whales will visit the central Puget Sound, chasing fall chum salmon runs, creating a rare thrill in an urban setting.
—Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 25 Dec. 2017
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All day, chum salmon announced their arrival with chaotic splashing in the river, but the boats remained tied up, some with nets piled inside.
—Emily Schwing, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2022
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As sockeye abound, Chinook and chum runs decline While sockeye have returned in droves, Chinook and chum salmon runs have dropped.
—Isabelle Ross, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2022
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His son’s fishing party returned with around 150 chum salmon, and several dozen more pinks.
—Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2021
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Chinook runs had been dwindling for years, but last year the region suffered an unexpected chum salmon crash, too.
—Olivia Ebertz, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2022
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The Kuskokwim River is critical for subsistence fishing, but its king and chum salmon stocks have collapsed.
—Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 19 May 2022
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In the summer, people harvest sheefish from the river, set nets for chum salmon and gather blueberries, salmonberries and cranberries.
—Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2021
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Low chum salmon returns has meant no commercial or subsistence fishing on the Lower Yukon River this summer.
—Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2021
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For the Arctic-Yukon Kuskokwim region, managers predict below average fisheries across the board, including a catch of just over half a million chum salmon.
—Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2021
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There are important distinctions between summer and fall chum salmon.
—Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2021
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Bald eagles have long congregated in winter along waterways in the northwest corner of Washington state, taking advantage of the abundant food as chum salmon spawned, died and were washed onto stream banks.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
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Historically, the chum salmon would navigate upriver during the high water events and then spawn after the waters had receded.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
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Warming ocean and river temperatures are also likely driving major declines in chum salmon, which have prompted parallel calls for stricter bycatch limits.
—Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022
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The recent extreme decline of western Alaska chum salmon, particularly those returning to the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers, represents an urgent mystery fisheries scientists want to solve.
—Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2021
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