Sentence examples for salmon from high-quality English sources.

• “I love wild salmon,” he said.

• Farmed salmon is much more plentiful, and cheaper.

• Season the salmon and fennel with salt and freshly ground black pepper.

• The first salmon ceremony celebrated the arrival of the salmon run.

• Continue making layers of salmon and sole fillet halves, ending with the salmon mixture.

• Whole salmon are usually gutted: if you’re cooking a whole salmon, the gills should be removed.

• For the salmon, place the salmon fillet onto the hot griddle pan and cook for 1-2 minutes, until browned.

• Pacific salmon return to the freshwater rivers once, to spawn and die; the Atlantic salmon make several returns.

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• Readily available all year round, farmed salmon generally has a rich, mild flavor, but lacks the salinity of wild salmon.

• Coho or silver salmon is a milder-tasting salmon and is generally wild, though there is some farm-raised Coho salmon.

• To confit the salmon: preheat the olive oil to 55C: drop in the four pieces of salmon and cook for approximately 16-18 minutes at 45C.

• The exact contents vary by season, with typical choices including super-fresh shrimp, fatty tuna, salmon, scallops, salmon roe and uni (sea urchin).

• The exact contents vary by season, with typical choices including super-fresh shrimp, fatty tuna, salmon, scallops, salmon roe and uni (sea urchin).

• The Fraser River is the major producer of salmon in British Columbia, and its tributaries and headwater lakes are the spawning grounds of several species of salmon.

• The commercial fishery of Pacific salmon nets millions of pounds annually, of which nearly half is pink salmon, one-third is chum salmon, and most of the remainder is sockeye.

• Chum salmon average about 10–12 pounds (4.5–5.5 kg); coho salmon weigh about 7–10 pounds (3–4.5 kg); sockeye, about 4–7 pounds (2–3 kg); and pink salmon, 3–6 pounds (1.3–2.7 kg).

salmon sentence examples

• But Jeremy Read, director of the Atlantic Salmon Trust, a salmon conservation body, says he has been heartened by reports of big salmon runs coming from the Tyne at Newcastle to the Dee in north-east Scotland.

• Salmon, originally, the large fish now usually called the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), though more recently the name has been applied to similar fishes of the same family (Salmonidae), especially the Pacific salmon, which constitute the genus Oncorhynchus.

• Given the size of the market, criticisms have included the amount of wild fish it takes to rear one salmon – if you’re eating farmed salmon for sustainability reasons, for example, you might worry that it takes 1.3kg of wild feed to produce one kilogram of salmon.

• The six species of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus) are the following: the sockeye or red salmon (O. nerka), which ranges from the northern Bering Sea to Japan and the Columbia River of the American Northwest; the coho or silver salmon (O. kisutch), ranging from the Bering Sea to Japan and the Salinas River of Monterey Bay; the chum or dog salmon (O. keta), ranging from the Mackenzie and Lena rivers in the southern Arctic southward to Japan and the Rogue River; the king, spring, or chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha), from the Yukon River to China and the Sacramento River; the pink or humpback salmon (O. gorbuscha), from the Arctic to Japan and the Klamath River; and the cherry salmon (O. masu), which is found off Japan.