The USS Nerka (SS-380), named for the nerka, a lake and river salmon (Oncorhinchus nerka) of the Pacific Northwest, also called blueback, sawqui, red salmon, and redfish, would have been a U.S. submarine. Its construction was authorized during World War II, but cancelled in July 1944.

The name was used for a fictional submarine in Edward L. Beach's novel, Run Silent, Run Deep (1955).

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