How to Use pink salmon in a Sentence

pink salmon

noun

• The waters are thick with coho, sockeye, and pink salmon.
  — Coral Davenport, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2022
• Sandy Milner first spotted pink salmon at Wolf Point Creek in 1989.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• The fish survived and a few years later adult pink salmon started showing up in the region’s rivers.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2022
• The shift in fish means a small fleet of Norton Sound purse seiners will test the waters for a new pink salmon fishery this summer.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2021
• Valdez also holds derbies for silver salmon and a special one-day pink salmon event just for kids.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2021
• In a bit of good news, Basil Larson from Russian Mission reported that the pink salmon run is strong this year.
  — Olivia Ebertz, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2022
• Likewise, permits at Prince William Sound have yet to gain much traction despite a great year for pink salmon.
  — Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2021
• The pink salmon pool into massive schools just outside stream mouths waiting for streams to have enough water.
  — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2019
• And the same holds true for pink salmon, where big shortfalls from Russia are biting into the global supply.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Oct. 2020
• The harvest of king salmon was 49 percent lower, as expected, and the pink salmon harvest was down 67 percent.
  — Annie Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2018
• Go the deep sea route for king salmon, halibut, rockfish, and cod; or stick to the rivers and streams for sockeye, silver and pink salmon, Dolly Varden, and steelhead.
  — Stephanie Granada, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• The shortfall this season stems from lower projections for hard-to-predict pink salmon.
  — Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2018
• The bulk is pink salmon which for over 100 years has predominantly been sold regionally across the U.S.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2021
• The Southeast Alaska pink salmon harvest of 28 million is predicted to be in the average range.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2021
• In addition to the recent pinook catches, some pink salmon are being landed in Lake Michigan.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2022
• Lower Cook Inlet should be ramping up soon, with pink salmon beginning to arrive in the various creeks and bays near Homer.
  — Elizabeth Earl, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2019
• Other salmonids caught with much lower frequency include brook trout, Atlantic salmon, and pink salmon.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2022
• The science panel will update research that has been underway since 2013 on pink salmon in Prince William Sound and chums in Southeast that aims to answer those questions.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2020
• Durkalec said Cleveland Metroparks fishery crews once netted a pink salmon from Euclid Creek while doing a fisheries survey.
  — cleveland, 19 Aug. 2021
• Most of those regions have enough sockeye or pink salmon that are performing well enough so people can subsistence fish for their household needs.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2021
• In addition to the downtown fishery, anglers have been reporting good fishing at Bird Creek south of town, where pink salmon appear to be thinning out.
  — Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2019
• Even-numbered-year returns and harvests of pink salmon are generally lower than those in odd-numbered years.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
• The problem extends all the way to Alaska, where a federal disaster was declared last year after sharply lower pink salmon runs.
  — Jim Carlton, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2018
• And, the Japanese scientists noted, pink salmon are most abundant in odd calendar years.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2018
• Next is pink salmon—a versatile and lean option with a light flavor which Heimbuch recommends for chowders.
  — Noma Nazish, Forbes, 26 June 2022
• Norton Sound residents have reported large numbers of dead pink salmon.
  — USA TODAY, 15 July 2019
• Alaska's salmon industry also felt pain in recent years from a Russian embargo on U.S. seafood — Russia had been a big market for pink salmon roe.
  — Annie Zak, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Oct. 2017
• Trident has been a leader in product development with its highly successful salmon burger that helped move a big stock of pink salmon and improved prices for harvesters.
  — Tim Bradner, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 Oct. 2017
• Meanwhile, the Panhandle is projected to see pink salmon numbers catches plummet next summer.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2019
• But Trident pointed to another factor: Russia catching huge quantities of pink salmon and flooding global markets to fund its war in Ukraine.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024