Today's Sea-times has a piece on, what I'm assuming is, the same fish. It includes this little segment;

'The sampling crews brought the fish back to the Vancouver office for species confirmation.

Based on the pyloric caeca count, it appeared to be somewhat more of a coho than a chinook.

In addition, the fish had a white gumline and kype attributed to a coho, but some large spotting, a large-size adipose fin and the general large size of the fish raised some doubt. Fin ray counts were also no help as counts overlap between chinook and coho.

"Based on the scale pattern it is a coho, but in some instances we've had salmon that were hybrids (a mix of chinook and coho), and the only way we can figure out exactly is through a DNA sampling, which were are planning on doing very shortly," Hymer said. '

What does this mean? a natural hybrid? .....any bio/knowledgable types out there want to weigh in? salmo? Maybe this issue's already been worked over on this board but if it is a hybrid what are the future implications? will there be more?

Do we throw out the records?....hmmmmmm & we thought the regs were cumbersome now.

Future concern? or anomaly?