The story
From the legends of the Makah people, which suggest that this fish guides the salmon each year to their spawning grounds.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
king-of-the-salmon
Today it means: Any member of the species Trachipterus altivelis (syn, Trachipterus rex-salmonorum), of the family Trachipteridae of ribbonfishes, of the eastern Pacific. Full definition →