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Definition of nerka

Nerka
Nerka Ner"ka, n. [Russ. niarka, prob. fr. native name.] (Zo["o]l.) The most important salmon of Alaska (Oncorhinchus nerka), ascending in spring most rivers and lakes from Alaska to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; -- called also red salmon, redfish, blueback, and sawqui.
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Redfish Red"fish` (r[e^]d"f[i^]sh`), n. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also nerka. See Blueback (b) . (b) The rosefish. (c) A large California labroid food fish (Trochocopus pulcher); -- called also fathead. (d) The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under Drumfish.

Meaning of nerka from wikipedia

- The sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), also called red salmon, kokanee salmon, blueback salmon, or simply sockeye, is an anadromous species of salmon...
- USS Nerka may refer to: USS Nerka (SS-380), a United States Navy submarine authorized during World War II; her construction contract was canceled in July...
- related to the sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) and has been earlier treated as its subspecies O. nerka kawamurae. The fish is dark olive with black...
- The kokanee salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), also known as the kokanee trout, little redfish, silver trout, kikanning, Kennerly's salmon, Kennerly's trout...
- because the lake is a great spawning ground of the red or blueback salmon (Nerka). The Eskimo name of the lake, "Agulukpak," meaning "big aguluk," was obtained...
- Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Oncorhynchus nerka". FishBase. April 2012 version. "Species Fact Sheet: Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum, 1792)". FAO. Archived from...
- Leagues Under the Sea, then pla**** the part of the fictional submarine USS Nerka in the 1958 motion picture Run Silent, Run Deep. She capped her film career...
- attacking the convoy, the Nerka forces its adversary to surface, where it uses the shallow-draft decoy ship as a screen. The Nerka fires torpedoes under the...
- Salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) jumping a beaver dam...
- Lutj**** sebae Emperor red snapper Lutj**** synagris Lane snapper Oncorhynchus nerka Sockeye salmon Rhomboplites aurorubens Vermillion snapper Sebastes fasciatus...