THE WEIGHT OF GAME FISH 



The Salmon 



THE largest salmon I ever saw was a Tyee 

 taken on a handline at Campbell River, 

 Vancouver Island, weighing 72 pounds. The 

 Tyee are said to weigh over 100 pounds, 

 yet "no fish weighing 80 pounds had ever 

 been brought to the cannery at Valdez 

 Island." 



I took 2,179 pounds of salmon in fifteen 

 days in Discovery Strait at Campbell River, 

 including 47 Tyee that averaged 43 pounds. 

 The largest fish weighed 60 pounds. 



In Canada the heaviest salmon I know of 

 was the 54 pound fish taken in the Cas- 

 capedia River. 



The Newfoundland record is a fish of 

 4>Il/2 pounds from the Codroy River in 

 1910. 



Between 1880 and 1919, 25,824 salmon 



were taken by the members of the Risti- 



gouche Salmon Club in Canada. These fish 



weighed 456,257 pounds and averaged 



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