jack salmon
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]jack salmon (plural jack salmon or jack salmons)
- Merluccius productus, a ray-finned fish found in the northeast Pacific Ocean.
- A Chinook salmon that returns to the fresh water one or two years early.
- (colloquial) Sander canadensis.
- (Midwestern US, colloquial) Sander vitreus.
- 1967, Robert E. McLaughlin, The Heartland: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →OCLC, page 16:
- A visitor may well be baffled by “pony keg” and “jack salmon,” but Cincinnatians know that the first is a store where beer may be purchased and the second is deep-fried pike.
Synonyms
[edit]- (Merluccius productus): North Pacific hake, Pacific hake, Pacific whiting
- (Sander canadensis): sauger
- (Sander vitreus): walleye
References
[edit]- Triplett, George V. (1919 October) “What is a Jack Salmon?”, in Outers' Recreation[1], volume 61, number 4, page 293