DCHP-2

king salmon † Pacific Coast DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 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. . . .