In the 1930s, record pink salmon runs brought many new settlers.

They were pink salmon, the last in the season to run, after the chum.

But this year's run of pink salmon was frighteningly small.

The pink salmon run occurs in even numbered years only.

Last year Alaskan fisherman caught 44.2 million pink salmon, a record.

The fry of pink salmon were found to be genetically abnormal.

"Flying overhead I could see right away it was the end of a pink salmon run.

Pink salmon have evolved to be two-thirds the size of their ancestors that lived only 50 years ago.

In the ocean, pink salmon are bright silver fish.

Pink salmon are not grown in significant numbers in fish farms.

In three weeks, the hatchery hopes to release 170 million pink salmon fry.

Puget Sound is also seeing large runs of coho and pink salmon this fall.

I had delicious fish-and-chips made with fresh pink salmon.

The out-migration of pink salmon fry from last year's spawning is due to begin in a week or so.

The pink salmon fry in the hatcheries are in the same stage of development.

Hatchery fish account for more than 90 percent of the pink salmon harvest, Kuwada said.

Chum and Pink salmon can also be caught, but are not generally sought after due to their relative lack of worth/quality.

Serving pink salmon in a pool of bright green sauce lends excitement to the dish.

This caused particular concern, since some biologists have said wild pink salmon are being overharvested by commercial fishermen.

Pink salmon were introduced into the Great Lakes and in Iran.

Alaskan fishermen predicted a catch of 40 million pink salmon last year, but only 12 million were taken.

The natives' lawsuit was prompted by a collapse of pink salmon runs in the fall of 2002.

Pink salmon were historically the most numerous salmon species in the river with over 250,000 adult returns.

Adult pink salmon enter spawning streams from the ocean, usually returning to the water course, or race, where they originated.

Pink salmon roe is also produced commercially for caviar, a particularly valuable product in Asia.

In the summer period, they feed on blueberries, crowberries, humpback salmon and salmon trout.

Pink salmon, sometimes known as Humpback salmon.

Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (pink salmon, humpback salmon)

The Amgun teems with fish, such as Siberian salmon, humpback salmon, sturgeon, carp, etc.

The river teems with different kinds of fish: grayling, sturgeon, humpback salmon (gorbusha), chum salmon (keta) and others.

They would stay there until the end of August to catch the sockeye and humpback salmon before continuing back to Vancouver Island for the chum salmon run.

Of Lane's many dreary movie-song assignments, the nadir, he said, was a musical ode to the humpback salmon from an obscure 1938 George Raft film, "Spawn of the North."

The community's name derives from honnock, the Halkomelem word for humpback salmon, which is the only kind of salmon to ascend Whonnock Creek, which flows through the community south from Whonnock Lake, which is just south of the Dewdney Trunk Road at the community's northern end.

Limacina helicina plays an important role in the marine food web as a major dietary component for predators such as large zooplankton, herring Clupea sp., chum salmon Oncorhynchus keta, pink salmon Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, rorquals, Phoca hispida and other seals and birds.

Pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), known as humpies in southeast and southwest Alaska, are found from northern California and Korea, throughout the northern Pacific, and from the Mackenzie River in Canada to the Lena River in Siberia, usually in shorter coastal streams.