jack salmon

English

Etymology

jack +‎ salmon

Noun

jack salmon (plural jack salmon or jack salmons)

  1. Merluccius productus, a ray-finned fish found in the northeast Pacific Ocean.
  2. A Chinook salmon that returns to the fresh water one or two years early.
  3. (colloquial) Sander canadensis.
  4. (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
  • (Merluccius productus): North Pacific hake, Pacific hake, Pacific whiting
  • (Sander canadensis): sauger
  • (Sander vitreus): walleye

References
  • Triplett, George V. (1919 October) “What is a Jack Salmon?”, in Outers' Recreation‎, volume 61, number 4, page 293
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