. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. NOTES PINK SALMON IN PRAIRIE CREEK, CALIFORNIA Another of those infrequent visits to California waters has been made by at least one individual of the species Oncorhynchus gorhuscha, the pink or "humpback" salmon. The specimen, a male 26 inches in fork length and weighing seven pounds, was taken in Prairie Creek, tributary to Redwood Creek in Humboldt County, on October 13, 1951. The normal spawning grounds for these fish li
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. NOTES PINK SALMON IN PRAIRIE CREEK, CALIFORNIA Another of those infrequent visits to California waters has been made by at least one individual of the species Oncorhynchus gorhuscha, the pink or "humpback" salmon. The specimen, a male 26 inches in fork length and weighing seven pounds, was taken in Prairie Creek, tributary to Redwood Creek in Humboldt County, on October 13, 1951. The normal spawning grounds for these fish lie well north of California, usually from Washington to Alaska. Pink salmon mature and spawn at the early age of two years and thus are the smallest of the Pacific salnions. Only the males develop the grotesque hump seen in the specimen FIGURE 1. Pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) from Prairie Creek, California. Photograph by J. B. Kimsey Previous appearances of the species in California waters have been recorded at various times; indeed, fairly respectable runs apparently oc- curred in some Mendocino County streams during 1937. (See "Pink Salmon in California " by A. C. Taft, California Fish and Game, vol. 24, no. 2, p. 197-8, April, 1938.) These, however, do not appear to have been repeated regularly and the appearance of isolated individuals in Cali- fornia remains noteworthy.—8. C. Smedley, Bureau of Fish Conserva- tion, California Department of Fish and Game, November, 1951. (275). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game. [San Francisco, etc. ] State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
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