Also sock-eye, suck-eye, sawkeye, etc. [ad. Amer. Indian sukai ‘fish of fishes,’ the native name on the Fraser River.] The blueback salmon or nerka.
1888. Goode, Amer. Fishes, 481. On Frazer River, where this species is the most important Salmon, it is known as the ‘Suk-kegh,’ ‘Saw-quai’ or ‘Suck-eye.’
1891. E. Roper, By Track & Trail, xxi. 304. It was the ‘Sock-eye’ salmon which was running then.
1903. Eng. Illustr. Mag., XXVIII. 128. The sockeyes which only weigh from five to eight pounds apiece.
