The Salmon 



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FIG. 96. 14-lb. Male Salmon. 2Oth August 1911. 



previous year. Had it escaped capture it would have ascended the 



river a third time, spawned, 



and become a kelt. 



The scale, Fig. 101, is 



from a female fish, and has 



118 lines. The parr stage 



shows twenty-eight lines ; to 



this were added sixty lines 



before it came up in the 



autumn. Returning to the 



sea, it remained there for 



two years, when other thirty 



lines were added, making a 



total of 1 1 8 lines. If we add 



another ten lines for the 



time spent in fresh water 



(August to March) we get 



a grand total of 128 lines, making 

 the fish to be eight years of age, 

 which few attain. 



Fig. 1 02 is a scale from one of 

 our marked fish of 1 2th February 

 1906. During the intervening 

 dates twenty-three lines had been 

 added to the scale, denoting a 

 sojourn of seventeen months in 

 the sea. This fish went down at 

 the age of two years, having at 

 that time thirty-two small lines on 

 its scale. 



The scale, Fig. 103, is taken 



FIG. 9 7.-3i-lb. Small Spring Fish. trQm a fish miir \^^ as a ^\ t t h e 



5th February 1911. 



previous year. From the outside 

 to the kelt mark sixteen rings can be counted, which can be 



