wild salmon

collocation in English

meaningsofwildandsalmon

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wild
adjective
uk
/waɪld/us
/waɪld/
uncontrolled, violent, ...
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salmon
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈsæm.ən/us
/ˈsæm.ən/
a medium-sized silver-coloured fish that lives in the sea or rivers and swims up rivers to produce its eggs. Its pink flesh is eaten as ...
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(Definition ofwildandsalmonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Differences were found between lice on farmed andwildsalmon, between lice on farmed salmon in different bays and even putative individual ' farm markers ' within lice populations infesting sea trout.
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The words "wildsalmon" have crept into our vocabulary since the introduction of farmed salmon.
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The answer must surely be no, due to the development of the fish farms whose annual production far exceeds the global catch ofwildsalmon.
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Their remit is food production, antiquated though this provision is when applied towildsalmon.
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It is a valuablewildsalmonfishery and it would be crazy to do anything to damage it.
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The focus here mainly needs to be onwildsalmonand stocks of wild fish.
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Special action is required to save thewildsalmonpopulation.
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By definitionwildsalmonis a salmon stock from a particular river which goes back to spawn in the same river in order to reproduce.
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What will that do to reintroducewildsalmoninto that great river?
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On the other hand it is obvious that eating farmed salmon is less healthy than eatingwildsalmon.
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As one can probably imagine, it is somewhat difficult to show the difference between salmon roe from farmed salmon and salmon roe fromwildsalmon.
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Because of the development of salmon farming, we no longer live in an age whenwildsalmonneed to be regarded as a food source.
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Also, arewildsalmonin danger from this virus?
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Most of the top-class restaurants that pay the premium price putwildsalmonon the menu, not farm salmon.
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That is the best outcome we can achieve, both for the salmon farmers and forwildsalmonstocks.
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I believe that the safeguards against the sale ofwildsalmonroe are adequate.
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He will appreciate that thewildsalmonstock in our east coast rivers has been falling fast.
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I understand that in the early years thewildsalmonwill also shoal as they do in the nets in a farm.
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This debate has highlighted once again the divergence of views that the issue ofwildsalmonarouses.
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We need to draw up a special programme for the recovery ofwildsalmon.
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