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1. Fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers
   - red salmon, sockeye
    
2. Small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
   - sockeye, red salmon, blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka

Derived forms: sockeye salmon

Type of: salmon

Part of: genus Oncorhynchus, Oncorhynchus

Encyclopedia: Sockeye salmon