blueback salmon

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Related to blueback salmon: red salmon, sockeye salmon

blue·back salmon

(blo͞o′băk′)

See sockeye salmon.

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blueback salmon - small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning

Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon

salmon - any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn

genus Oncorhynchus, Oncorhynchus - Pacific salmon including sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; chum salmon; coho salmon

red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon - fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers

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Few took the odd fish "for the pot" but instead relieved the river of hefty quantities of blueback salmon and sewin.

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