sockeye

Borrowed from Halkomelem sθəqəy̓, probably meaning red fish.

sockeye (countable and uncountable, plural sockeyes or sockeye)

1. A small salmon with red flesh, Oncorhynchus nerka, found in the coastal waters of the northern Pacific.
2. Edible flesh of this fish.

• kokanee, blueback salmon, red salmon, sockeye salmon