FISHES GROW VERY RAPIDLY
SMOLT AND SALMON. Fishes grow very rapidly, and sometimes to an enormous extent. Perhaps the most remarkable example is that of a smolt which, liberated when weighing only an ounce, turned the scale at 3Jlb., when recaptured fourteen months later—an inlcrease of 5600 per cent, for the period. Scarcely less striking is the cast of a Ness salmon wLich, weighing Sib and measuring 35 inches when taken out and marked, was found, six months later to have increased its weight to 231 b., and its length to 38 inches. A sea-trout marked and put into the water at Coquet, Northumberland, WSS found to have doubled its weight, but without adding to its length, when taken otit of the water forty-nine days later at Aberdeen.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6755, 7 November 1928, Page 8
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128FISHES GROW VERY RAPIDLY Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6755, 7 November 1928, Page 8
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