Salmon and trout
Sir,—To help others avoid the confusion over the identification of quinnat salmon, I offer the following quotation from “The Western Angler,” by Roderick L. HaigBrown: “A quick and almost invariably sound method of differentiating between any trout, including brown trout and Atlantic salmon, and any Pacific salmon, is to count the rays in the anal fin. Only fully developed rays are counted — that is to say, rays at least two-thirds as long as the longest. Trout will be found to have fewer than 13 rays. Pacific salmon almost invariably have more than 13.” Mr Haig-Brown says that the brown trout and Atlantic salmon usually have only eight or nine fully developed rays in the anal fin. The first edition of Mr Haig-Brown’s book was published in 1939, and the book is now one of the classics of North American angling literature.—Yours, etc., B. HUNT. April 27, 1984.
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