Sentence examples for chinook from inspiring English sources

The other, taken from a chinook salmon, is a version of the growth-hormone gene itself.

THIS spring, around 375,000 adult chinook salmon are expected to make their way over the Bonneville hydroelectric dam as they swim up the Columbia River between Washington state and Oregon to reach their spawning grounds.

For many, this is a welcome display of the sea's bounty; for the first time since 1977 there are enough chinook in the river to allow them to be fished commercially.Sadly, though, the news is not all good, for some 80-90% of this spring's chinook are not wild fish.

The researchers looked at the survival of wild chinook in the ocean over a period of 25 years.

In one day alone, 27,000 chinook leapt and bounded up the salmon ladders next to the dam almost three times the number recorded in the whole of 1995.

The "Quiet Skies Coalition", formed by a group of angry residents, protests against the noise, particularly of one billionaire's military-size Chinook.

An endangered listing for Puget Sound chinook would encompass the most urbanised and densely populated area yet involved in an attempt to restore or save an endangered species.

Far from the fish farms, Alaska's prized chinook (or king) salmon is also under pressure.

The only reason they continue at such a pace, argues Mr Lichatowich, is that they are the main source of funds for the agencies that operate them.The dramatic numbers of chinook that returned this year have less to do with a wise investment of taxpayers' money than with unusually favourable sea conditions.

A strong, warm windstorm is called a chinook in the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada, a foehn in the European Alps, and a zonda in the Andes Mountains of Argentina.

Chinook Jargon, also called Tsinuk Wawa, pidgin, presently extinct, formerly used as a trade language in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.