The word salmon is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a type of fish found in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans. For example, "This restaurant offers a delicious grilled salmon entrée that I highly recommend."
Make a simple pasta with the cheaper trimmings of Scottish smoked salmon available in supermarkets.
Then ate a hotel breakfast – carrot juice, omelette, lentils, salad, salmon – with no bread, no croissant; my new resolve on diet.
I stand at the far end of the market watching fishmongers drink cheap beer and dice up clam or salmon ceviche for £3 a portion.
Three "courses" might comprise, say, yoghurt with fruit, then smoked salmon and cream cheese or Mexican-style eggs, then homemade cake, all beautifully served on delicate white china with white linen napkins.
At the end of the day, we would head, sandy-footed, to the nearest restaurant, knowing that at every one there would be a cabinet full of fresh seafood to choose from – bass, bream, salmon, lobster, prawns, crabs, goose barnacles, clams … We never ate the same thing twice.
The Corner Cupboard – where, in a different world a few hours ago, they'd nibbled at salmon salads – caught fire.
During the lunch, chatting away, picking at the salmon he has ordered from the still giggling waitress, his voice takes on the tones of some of those he has admired or met or worked with.
I order salmon and we agree to share an artichoke starter.
He caught nothing, so he borrowed a salmon from his hotel and posed with it for the local paper.
That same season (when Idol was averaging over 30 million viewers a night), Kellie Pickler became a water cooler favorite with her ditzy antics, as she babbled over Simon Cowell's critiques and mispronounced words like "salmon".
