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lines from the kelt to their return in the clean state are quite easily 

 counted, and give one a more correct idea of the number of lines put 

 on in the sea during each month and year. 



The fish, Fig. 104, has been in the sea one year and four months, 

 having put on twenty-three lines on its scale since going down as a 

 kelt. There are also eight very narrow lines where one would expect 

 to find broad ones. 



FIG. 104. 24 Ibs. 2Oth June 1911. 



The fish, Fig. 105, came up the previous year as an early grilse, 

 spawned, became a kelt, and went down to the sea in spring, return- 

 ing in July of the same year. There are eight lines from the kelt 

 mark to the outer edge of the scale, showing it had gone dow r n in 

 February and remained six months in the sea. Many kelts which 

 proceed seawards during winter and spring begin to return early 

 in July, and increase in numbers daily until the advent of December, 



