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ON October 10, 1960, an Atlantic salmon 71 cm. total length, weighing 3.7 kgm. (8.2 lb.), and carrying Fisheries Research Board of Canada tag No. 1,616, was caught in the sea off Tassiussaq (65° 06′ N., 52° 08′ W.), near Napossok to the south of Sukkertoppen, Greenland. The fish was tagged on May 22, 1959, in the estuary of the Miramichi River near Chatham, New Brunswick (47° 04′ N., 65° 28′ W.), as a smolt 17.5 cm. in total length. It was one of 3,500 smolts tagged there in May and June, 1959, with tags patterned after those used by Dr. Börje Carlin1 in Sweden, but had printed laminated plastic pendants supplied by a commercial firm.
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KERSWILL, C., KEENLEYSIDE, M. Canadian Salmon caught off Greenland. Nature 192, 279 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/192279a0
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