OBSERVATIONS ON A SALMON RIVER 



Game and Inland Fisheries Board for inquiry 

 as to where the fish had been liberated. 



On July 15 he received a message from 

 the Game Board stating that the fish was 

 liberated from the salmon hatchery at Mar- 

 garie, Nova Scotia, November, 1917; at that 

 time it measured 34 inches in length and 

 weighed 12 pounds. 



This dislodges the theory that salmon al- 

 ways frequent the same water yearly, and 

 also shows a remarkable growth within the 

 given period. 



This fish in nineteen months grew in 

 length 6 inches, being an average of almost 

 an inch every three months, and gained an 

 average of three-quarters of a pound in 

 weight per month for the same period. 



THE AGE OF SALMON 



According to Malloch it is easy not only 

 to tell the age of an Atlantic salmon by 

 its scales but also to follow its journeyings 

 and occupations through life. 

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