How to Use sockeye salmon in a Sentence

sockeye salmon

noun
  • How much sockeye salmon can a bear eat a day?
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Right now that’s sockeye salmon, Alaskan cod and Alaskan black cod.
    — Abigail Abesamis Demarest, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The daily bag limit remains two fish per day, but now one or two can be sockeye salmon.
    — oregonlive, 30 June 2022
  • Bristol Bay produces about half of the world’s sockeye salmon.
    — Becky Bohrer, The Seattle Times, 2 July 2018
  • Most of that fat comes from chowing down on sockeye salmon, which pack thousands of calories each.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2020
  • More than half was sockeye salmon, valued at nearly $9 million.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2021
  • In Alaska, pink and sockeye salmon are the primary species, followed by chums.
    — Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2018
  • In lower temperatures the returning sockeye salmon hold in the bay for a few days.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2020
  • The fox was busy searching in the shallows for salmon carcasses – sockeye salmon that had died after spawning.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
  • This caldera lake, formed in the crater made by a volcanic eruption, is the largest sockeye salmon spawning ground in Eurasia.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • At this time of year, a dominant bear in a quality fishing spot can catch up to 30 sockeye salmon in a day.
    — Emily M. Eng, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The sockeye salmon is wild-caught by a network of Native Alaskan fishermen.
    — goodhousekeeping.com, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Anglers will soon be able to catch more Russian River sockeye salmon — and just in time for the weekend.
    — Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2019
  • The Big Ten gutted the Pac-12 like a bear ripping open sockeye salmon.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 1 July 2022
  • One hundred miles farther southwest is Bristol Bay, home to the world’s largest run of wild sockeye salmon.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Those were for the Pacific cod and sockeye salmon fisheries in 2018.
    — Janet McConnaughey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2019
  • This time of year, these apex predators are packing on the pounds by feasting on calorie-rich sockeye salmon at Brooks Falls.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 25 Sep. 2025
  • In all, more than 600 sockeye salmon reached Lower Granite Dam this year.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Since then, several species of adult fish, including sockeye salmon and bull trout, have returned to the Elwha.
    — Stefan Lovgren, National Geographic, 8 May 2019
  • Bristol Bay is the heavyweight in the wild sockeye salmon world; more than three quarters of the sockeye harvested in the state come from there.
    — Elizabeth Earl, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2020
  • The event also brings global attention to Katmai, which boasts one of the world's healthiest sockeye salmon runs.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The sockeye salmon harvest in the Bristol Bay area of Alaska is expected to be among the largest on record.
    — New York Times, 18 July 2022
  • But variety is the master here, and other rice ball flavors include cod roe, spicy lobster and shrimp, sockeye salmon and umami chicken.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The harvest of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon, a long-running annual—130 years old—event is set to break records this month.
    — Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes, 25 July 2022
  • The streams that flow into Mendenhall Lake, 13 miles from Juneau, are home to sockeye salmon and cutthroat trout.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The mine would have jeopardized the region’s salmon fishery, which brings thousands of jobs to the area and supplies about half the world’s sockeye salmon, Reynolds said.
    — Becky Bohrer, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Bristol Bay sockeye salmon returned in record numbers this season, and while much of the focus is on the bumper year in the Bay, all is not rosy statewide.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2021
  • Bristol Bay is home to the largest wild sockeye salmon run in the world and typically accounts for 42% of the world’s sockeye harvest.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The Katmai brown bears are famous for standing at Brooks Falls, catching sockeye salmon in their mouths to fatten up for the winter.
    — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • One drains into Lake Iliamna, Alaska's biggest, which has produced about one-fifth of the bay's sockeye salmon over the past 2 decades.
    — Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 26 Sep. 2019

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