Salmo

Here's a scale I picked off a "Google salmon"



Tell me if you agree with my analysis.

The middle 1/5th across the horizontal diameter of the scale represents the freshwater stage. The rings all seem so close together, but I'll venture a guess that this critter only spent one year in the river. If I use my imagination, I think I can talk myself into a second winter band in the river.

Beyond that is a HUGE band of summer growth, followed by a band perhaps half as wide (at the 12:00 meridian) of winter growth. End of salt year one.

Beyond that is another HUGE band of summer growth extending out to the free edge of the scale.

So I would call this a 1.2.... OR.... if stretching my imagination, a 2.2.

How did I do?
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The Keen Eye MD
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