The Salmon 



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8 years old. The lines on this scale are very well defined, and show 

 no parr mark or contraction. 



I received the scale, Fig. 125, from Captain B. Starkey. There 

 are eighty-eight lines on this scale, which compares favourably with 

 those of Tay salmon of the same weight, whose age would be 5^ years. 



Like the former salmon scales I found no parr marks or contrac- 

 tions. Fig. 126 has seventy-eight rings, and another I examined 



FlG. 126. 14-lb. Choe Salmon (Vancouver). 4th September 1910. 



from a fish of 8 Ibs. had seventy rings. The former, I presume 

 would be 4^ years and the latter 5 years of age. 



LARGE SALMON 



The largest salmon caught in British waters during the last thirty- 

 six years was caught in the nets on the Tay at Newburgh in 1872. 

 Its length was 4 feet 5 inches, its girth 2 feet 7 inches, and its weight 

 71 Ibs. Mr. Frank Buckland had a cast made of this fish and painted by 

 Rolfe. It is now in the Buckland Museum, South Kensington, labelled 

 70 Ibs., having evidently lost i Ib. by the time it reached London, as 



