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J M Johnston
1848
Humpback Salmon
24
11 March Body taking
on more fish like
proportions than
it had again.
21 March More -
1 April
14 Aug. Holkham Bay Alaska
Duck Creek,
At a place in the creek
where the stream spreads
out over a bar, where the
rocks are fist size or less,
it is about 25 ft wide x 6 in.
deeep. Small channels in this
bar will run about 10 in deep.
In one of these small channels
there was a hollow 2 ft
wide x 3 ft long that ran
about a foot deep. In it were
two Humpies, a ♂ and a
♀. [The female usually measures
about 18in long, 4.5 vertically.