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WILL LANDLOCKED SOCKEYE BEHAVE AS SEA FISH IF GIVEN CHANCE IN OCEAN? 
By lion. E. N. RHODES, M.P. CA Source: FISHERIES NEWS BULLETIN 11/1/1932

Interesting Experiment Set on Foot by Dominion Scientists to Study Possible Value of "Kokanee" or
Landlocked Sockeye as Aides in Increasing Salmon Stocks of the Pacific Coast
 

If the fry of landlocked sockeye
salmon, are liberated in streams which lead to sea will they go out to salt water and then return in due course to reproduce normal sea sockeye?

Canadian scientists are studying this question out in British Columbia and should they find an affirmative answer it would be possible to increase greatly the commercial sockeye production, for eggs of the landlocked salmon, or " kokan,ee " or " redfish " as it is gçnerally known, are obtainable in abundance in different Pacific coast areas. For the present, however, the investigators carrying on the work express no opinion as to its probable results.

 
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