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It is interesting to compare these weights and 
measurements with those of salmon. Take 
shape first of all. A dorado is broader than a 
salmon. Mr. J. Arthur Hutton gives measure¬ 
ments of large Wye salmon from 1908 to 1920, 
fish averaging over twenty-one pounds in 
weight, and the proportion of their girth to 
their length is .513 1 : that is to say, a salmon’s 
girth is very little more than half his length. 
Now the girth of the two dorado given above is 
.70, or nearly three-quarters their length : this 
shows how much thicker is a dorado than a 
salmon. 
The comparative weights are puzzling. A 
good formula for salmon is : 
Length + i length * girth 2 
-=weight. 
1000 
Now on that scale the first dorado works out at 
very nearly his actual weight of forty-six 
pounds. But the other fish ought to have 
weighed four pounds more. I do not know the 
reason of the discrepancy. 
It only remains to add that the dorado is very 
good to eat. Its flesh is firm, and pale pink in 
colour. Be sure also that you taste the very 
1 See Salmon and Trout Magazine , No. 29, April, 1922. 
2 See Angler's Diary , 1922. 
