How to Use pink salmon in a Sentence

pink salmon

noun
  • That year, a hundred pink salmon found their way to the stream.
    — Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Valdez also holds derbies for silver salmon and a special one-day pink salmon event just for kids.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2021
  • 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 pink salmon pool into massive schools just outside stream mouths waiting for streams to have enough water.
    — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Seemingly every few seconds, pink salmon were jumping out of the water all around us.
    — Robert Annis, Outside, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The shortfall this season stems from lower projections for hard-to-predict pink salmon.
    — Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2018
  • There were three rangers there that evening, and one of them wandered down to the beach with his fishing rod and pulled out a giant pink salmon on one of his first casts.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 10 Sep. 2025
  • One reason researchers are paying close attention to pink salmon is the fish's ability to adapt.
    — Staff Author, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026
  • 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
  • Other salmonids caught with much lower frequency include brook trout, Atlantic salmon, and pink salmon.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Norton Sound residents have reported large numbers of dead pink salmon.
    — USA TODAY, 15 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sandy Milner first spotted pink salmon at Wolf Point Creek in 1989.
    — Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
  • In addition to the recent pinook catches, some pink salmon are being landed in Lake Michigan.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, the Panhandle is projected to see pink salmon numbers catches plummet next summer.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • 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 Southeast Alaska pink salmon harvest of 28 million is predicted to be in the average range.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Durkalec said Cleveland Metroparks fishery crews once netted a pink salmon from Euclid Creek while doing a fisheries survey.
    — cleveland, 19 Aug. 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
  • The total 2022 harvest, including the breakdown among sockeye and pink salmon, was almost exactly what had been forecast by the department this spring.
    — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
  • During my mid-August visit, the Anan Creek was full of pink salmon, which made a hearty feast for the several bears hunting that day, needing to fuel up for their upcoming winter hibernation.
    — Dan Fellner, The Arizona Republic, 26 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

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