USS Nerka (SS-380)

USS Nerka (SS-380), named for the nerka, a lake and river salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Pacific Northwest, also called sockeye, sawqui, red salmon, and redfish, would have been a United States Navy Balao-class submarine. Her construction was authorized during World War II, but cancelled on 29 July 1944.

The name USS Nerka was used for a fictional U.S. Navy submarine in Edward L. Beach's 1955 novel Run Silent, Run Deep.