salmon n For comb salmon berry in sense 2, see O Sup2 ~ sb1 4 c.
1 1983 Gazetteer of Canada: Nfld 152-3 Salmon Bay [Bight, Brook, Cove, Gulch, Hole, Net Head, Point, Pond, River, Rock, Shoal, etc]. 1989 Evening Telegram 27 Nov, p. 3 When asked what may be done [to conserve the salmon stock] he replied: 'Fewer large salmon have to go into nets and on the end of rods and hooks and be put on the spawning grounds, that's what has to be done.'
2 Attrib, comb, cpd ~ berry: BAKEAPPLE (Rubus chamaemorus), ~ berth, ~ box, ~ collector, ~ depôt: see ~ station, ~ net, ~ station.
1986 Them Days xi (4), p. 7 There were also barrels of red berries (low bush cranberries) and bakeapples or salmon berries that were purchased in the summer. [1889] 1985 TAYLOR 12 In Gander River I was informed that there were eight salmon berths claimed by seven persons in all. These people fish in the river with stake-nets which they put out...about the 12th June, and...[take] in about the 8th August, each year. 1987 POOLE 17 There was a man living in Seal Bight [who] had good salmon berths handed down from his father. 1980 COX 22 [They] get out three or four chunks of ice...chip it with an axe, put the salmon into what we call a salmon box...and coat it with ice and ship it off. 1987 POOLE 63 When the salmon collector came the first time I had quite a few salmon iced down in my stage. [1858 GREY] 3 [Cartwright] is a salmon depôt of Messrs. Hunt, of London, whence their agents ship preserved salmon for England. 1986 SAUNDERS 58 We don't want to run over Uncle John's salmon nets now, do we? 1986 Them Days xi (4), 15 [They would] carefully pass up the huge fish (salmon), which had been split down the back and laid out flat for the preliminary salting which took place at the salmon stations [like Rigolet].
