Noun
small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers
Source: WordNetAn estimated 150,000 sockeye at one time returned annually to central Idaho, and Redfish Lake, near the small town of Stanley, was named for the abundant red-colored salmon that spawned there. Source: Internet
Although most adult Pacific salmon feed on small fish, shrimp, and squid, sockeye feed on plankton they filter through gill rakers. Source: Internet
A permit for the proposed gold and copper mine at the headwaters of the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery in Alaska was recently rejected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as “contrary to the public interest.” Source: Internet
Chinook and sockeye salmon from central Idaho, for example, travel over convert and climb nearly convert from the Pacific Ocean as they return to spawn. Source: Internet
Instead of spawning naturally, these sockeye begin their lives in an incubator in a fishery biologist's laboratory. Source: Internet
As a result of the high sockeye returns, ADFG is opening the Chitina dipnet fishery July 14 to July 20 with a supplemental harvest of 10 fish per household allowed above the annual limit. Source: Internet