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king salmon
†
Pacific Coast
a Chinook salmon.
See also:
Chinook salmon
tyee
(def. 3)
1900
 
. . . we are proud to have thee as our
potlach
-guest; but the king-salmon does not mate with the dog-salmon.
1916
 
In mid-summer the tyee or king salmon also runs strong in Valdez Straits north and south of the mouth of the Campbell River.
1959
 
Thirty big . . . kings met their fate, about 80 per cent of them from fishermen using pearl pink Lucky Louis plugs.
1963
 
Fall is also in the return of the salmon to their rivers--not in the early king salmon runs that come to a few rivers in May. . . .