[fraser] 



PACIFIC SALMON 



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The lengthening snout of the mature male may have had a little 

 to do with the greater length of the male, but at the times the scales 

 were taken, there was little indication of such lengthening. All the 

 dog salmon examined were caught between September 5 and October 

 7. The first fish that came in were bright and the scales were easily 

 removed. It was not long until an occasional discoloured one ap- 

 peared and the scales in these were firmly set. The Qualicum dogs 

 remained bright longer than those from other localities brought into 

 the cannery, but even among these, quite a large proportion were 

 getting darker in the skin before the taking of scales was completed. 

 These dark ones were avoided, and consequently, very few of the 

 scales taken even on October 7 showed any sign of disintegration at 



