A MIGRATORY SALMON.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5197, 17 November 1877, Page 3

A MIGRATORY SALMON.

(From the Home News, August 31.) While Mr. Greenhorn's fishermen were recently engaged at the Blaokgrange fishings on the Forth, between Alloa and Stirling, they landed a fine’ Sea trout, marked with a silver wire in its tail. "The, fish, which measured 17in. in length, arid weighed 28£bzs., was sent to ;Mr.’ Napier, superintendent of tho Forth district of salmon fishings at Stirling, who extracted the wire, and forwarded it to Mr. List, chief constable of Berwickshire, who is in charge of the Tweed experiments, and he now gives the following particulars regarding it : The wire was numbered in’ cipher 1247, and wa’s ’put into a hlaoktail or Lammasman 13in. 16ng, and weighing on October 18, 1876, at Coveshield fishing on the Tweed. It was recaptured iu the Forth 289 days after, weighing more than double its weight when marked, clearly showing the rapid growth ot those fish iu the sea, which has been fully prbved, not only in this case, but also with other marked fishes. The case is also mentioned of a fish marked on November 10,1872, as | a blackball, or Lammasman, weighing 13 ounces, arid when recaptured in the Forth 237 days thereafter it weighed 28 ounces.