Fishery bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service - NOAA

294 SALMON OF THE KARLTJK RIVER, ALASKA
22. Removal of the adipose and right, left, or both ventral fins is considered
preferable in marking fish rather than the removal of adipose and dorsal, or adipose
and one pectoral fin.
23. The adipose and dorsal mark compared equally well with the adipose and
right ventral mark in the returns. However, the removal of the dorsal fin left a
large wound on.the back of the young fish which may cause a high rate of mortality.
24. The right and left pectoral marks are definitely inferior to the others, due
probably to the need of these fins by the fish for maintaining their equilibrium when
eluding their enemies.
25. The total calculated returns from those experiments wherein either the
adipose and left ventral, adipose and right ventral, or adipose and both ventral fins
were amputated were 20.8 (incomplete), 22.3, 21.0, 23.6, 20.5, and 20.5 percent for
the experiments of 1926, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933, respectively.
26. The average return from the marking of 3-year seaward migrants was 17.4
percent and for the 4-year seaward migrants 25.7 percent.
27. While a slight differential mortality probably exists between the marked
and the unmarked fish, it is not considered to be great in the case of the fish marked
by the amputation of either the left, right, or both ventral fins, as the survival of
the marked fish during their stay in the ocean is relatively high, averaging 21.45
percent.
28. The mortality of Karluk River red salmon during the fresh-water stage of
their life history is usually over 99 percent.
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