1. Small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
   "The sockeye salmon's bright red flesh makes it highly prized for sushi";
   - sockeye, red salmon, blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka
    
2. Fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers
   "We enjoyed canned sockeye salmon in our salad";
   - red salmon, sockeye

Derived forms: sockeye salmon

Type of: salmon

Part of: genus Oncorhynchus, Oncorhynchus

Encyclopedia: Sockeye salmon