How to Use sockeye salmon in a Sentence

sockeye salmon

noun

• Right now that’s sockeye salmon, Alaskan cod and Alaskan black cod.
  — Abigail Abesamis Demarest, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• The Big Ten gutted the Pac-12 like a bear ripping open sockeye salmon.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 1 July 2022
• How to cook sockeye salmon Wild salmon can dry out faster than the fat-marbled farmed stuff.
  — Amanda Shapiro, Bon Appétit, 8 Aug. 2023
• Their smoked sockeye salmon makes for a great souvenir.
  — Kathleen Squires, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
• Bristol Bay produces about half of the world’s sockeye salmon.
  — Becky Bohrer, The Seattle Times, 2 July 2018
• That compares to a statewide average of just $0.76 a pound for sockeye salmon last year.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2021
• The mission: to catch some of the abundant sockeye salmon for their own consumption.
  — Anne Raup, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2022
• Those were for the Pacific cod and sockeye salmon fisheries in 2018.
  — Janet McConnaughey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2019
• The harvest of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon, a long-running annual—130 years old—event is set to break records this month.
  — Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• The sockeye salmon harvest in the Bristol Bay area of Alaska is expected to be among the largest on record.
  — New York Times, 18 July 2022
• In all, more than 600 sockeye salmon reached Lower Granite Dam this year.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2021
• Anglers will soon be able to catch more Russian River sockeye salmon — and just in time for the weekend.
  — Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2019
• The daily bag limit remains two fish per day, but now one or two can be sockeye salmon.
  — oregonlive, 30 June 2022
• Most of that fat comes from chowing down on sockeye salmon, which pack thousands of calories each.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2020
• Bristol Bay is the heavyweight in the wild sockeye salmon world; more than three quarters of the sockeye harvested in the state come from there.
  — Elizabeth Earl, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2020
• One hundred miles farther southwest is Bristol Bay, home to the world’s largest run of wild sockeye salmon.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2019
• Bristol Bay sockeye salmon returned in record numbers this season, and while much of the focus is on the bumper year in the Bay, all is not rosy statewide.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2021
• For all you trivia buffs, the answer is four: white sturgeon, bull trout, burbot and sockeye salmon.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 19 Feb. 2018
• The mine would have jeopardized the region’s salmon fishery, which brings thousands of jobs to the area and supplies about half the world’s sockeye salmon, Reynolds said.
  — Becky Bohrer, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
• The sockeye salmon is wild-caught by a network of Native Alaskan fishermen.
  — goodhousekeeping.com, 18 Apr. 2023
• In Alaska, pink and sockeye salmon are the primary species, followed by chums.
  — Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2018
• At this time of year, a dominant bear in a quality fishing spot can catch up to 30 sockeye salmon in a day.
  — Emily M. Eng, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
• Bristol Bay is home to the largest wild sockeye salmon run in the world and typically accounts for 42% of the world’s sockeye harvest.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2021
• One drains into Lake Iliamna, Alaska's biggest, which has produced about one-fifth of the bay's sockeye salmon over the past 2 decades.
  — Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 26 Sep. 2019
• More than 2,000 brown bears live in the park, which is also home to the largest run of sockeye salmon left on the planet, according to the National Park Service.
  — Angela Owens, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
• What to do: Ranger Jack Ransom says fishing for coho or sockeye salmon can be excellent in the area.
  — Erin Kirkland, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2018
• In lower temperatures the returning sockeye salmon hold in the bay for a few days.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2020
• The Katmai brown bears are famous for standing at Brooks Falls, catching sockeye salmon in their mouths to fatten up for the winter.
  — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 4 Oct. 2023
• The fish species in the study involved several types of wild Alaskan salmon: chinook, coho, pink and sockeye salmon, as well as rainbow trout.
  — Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2018
• The bears rely on the abundance of the sockeye salmon run within the Brooks River, a mile-and-a-half long stream that contains the largest concentration of brown bears on the planet, Moore said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024