Yankee Fork chinook with tails cut off

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It's pretty common to cut the tails off, or do something similar to mark the fish, during carcass surveys. Which help the managers determine things like escapement estimates and spawn timing and location. I would assume that's what is going on there.

I think Mike Rowe even did a carcass survey (while wielding a machete...) a while back in California on the show Dirty Jobs.
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