Pacific fish

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Great list of fish.....although Wikipedia is not always exactly right. Cruised a few of my Alaskan fish in there and found the Dolly Varden entry to be a bit off the mark. North American dollies exist as either the northern subspecies, salvelinus malma malma, or the southern subspecies, salvelinus malma lordii (or s. m. krascheninnikovi if you are Russian). The article states s.m.malma extends to Puget sound...not true....the southern most extension of norther dolly varden is the Susitna River a bit north of Anchorage and these fish are almost exclusively anadramous and consequently the largest of the dollies. The southern dolly extends from the Susitna River to Puget Sound in Washington and are primarily, although not exclusively, lacustrine or riverine. Although virtually identical in size and shape they are easy for biologists to seperate as they have different numbers of chromosomes.

Sorry, don't mean to pontificate but I am a stickler for accuracy....this information can be found in Robert Behnke's books on salmonids.

Nice reference source.

Brian
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