salmon eggs
Orange fish spawn
Salmon eggs are the roe of salmon, appearing as small orange-red spheres.
They're prized in cuisine—eaten raw as ikura in Japanese cooking, used as sushi topping, or served on blini.
Salmon eggs also serve as fishing bait, particularly effective for trout and steelhead: He threaded a few salmon eggs onto the hook.
- roeAquatic reproductive material
- caviarCured fish eggs
- spawnAquatic eggs or generate
- spawning seasonTime when fish reproduce
- sushiVinegared rice with toppings
sushi topping · orange · glistening · pop · pop in mouth · briny · ocean · Pacific Northwest · river · fish · delicacy · burst · salty · translucent · bright orange · pearl · Japanese · tobiko
- salmon farmingfish pen, fish cage, fish hatchery, hatchery, smolt
- fishing baitworm, worms, nightcrawlers, nightcrawler, live bait
- fishing tacklefishing rod, fishing rods, spinning rod, fly rod, fishing line
- salmon fishingchinook, sockeye, coho, spawning, spawning grounds
- seafoodfish, shrimp, crab, lobster, tuna
culinary context
salmon eggssalmon fillet
Boneless cut of pink fish
salmon steak · smoked salmon · lox · gravlax · salmon belly