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coho

 or silver salmon

Species (Oncorhynchus kisutch) of salmon prized for food and sport that ranges from the Bering Sea to Japan and the Salinas River of Monterey Bay, Cal. It weighs about 10 lbs (4.5 kg) and is recognized by the small spots on the back and upper tail-fin lobe. Young cohos stay in freshwater for about one year before entering North Pacific waters; they mature in about three years. Some landlocked populations spend their entire lives in freshwater. Cohos were successfully transplanted in the 1970s into Lake Michigan as a game fish.
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We're having a fantastic season with my clients getting their limit of cohos in the six- and seven-pound range every day," he reported in mid-July.
Life's great on the lake by Lydecker, Ryck / BOAT/U.S. Magazine
The river's tributaries produce more adult cohos than the entire state of Oregon.
TROUBLED WATERS by Russell, Dick / E
This burst of growth gives these cohos a distinct advantage for survival at sea when they eventually leave the freshwater system.
Salmon and forests: fog brothers by Steelquist, Robert / American Forests
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