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The province of Ontario started the Atlantic Salmon Restoration Program [63] in 2006, which is one of the largest freshwater conservation programs in North America. It has since stocked Lake Ontario and surrounding tributaries with upwards of 6,000,000 young Atlantic salmon, with efforts growing each year. [64]
The biggest recorded taimen was caught in the Kotui River in Russia, and measured 2.1 m (6.9 ft) and weighed 105 kg (231 lb). [129] Some sources claim the largest is the Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) of America's Pacific Northwest, although this species falls behind the taimen in maximum size. [73]
The International Game Fish Association (IGFA) all-tackle world record chain pickerel is a 4.25 kg (9.4 lb) fish, caught in Homerville, Georgia on February 17, 1961 by angler Baxley McQuaig, Jr., while the IGFA all-tackle length world record is 65 centimetres (26 in) long, caught in Henderson Harbor, Lake Ontario, New York on November 4, 2019 ...
The maximum size is not assured, but supposedly a fish caught in the Kotui River in Russia in 1943 with a length of 210 cm (83 in) and a weight of 105 kg (231 lb) is the largest size recorded. [7] The IGFA world record is 45.80 kg (101.0 lb) with a length of 150.00 cm (59.06 in). [ 8 ]
A Pennsylvania angler caught his ‘unicorn’ fish Sunday in Erie. Colton Alex, 18, of Erie, was fishing in a tournament in Lake Erie when he hooked into a large Atlantic Salmon.
The abundance of prey fish in Lake Ontario allow these river-running fish to often attain great size. Two world record fish have been taken from the Salmon River: A 33 lb 4 oz (15.1 kg) coho salmon was landed in 1989, [35] and a 35 lb 8 oz (16.1 kg) Chinook-coho hybrid was caught in 2001. [36]
Workers prepare sides of fresh farmed salmon for filleting and packaging in the processing plant at a fish farm operated by Salmar ASA on the island of Froya, Norway, on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014.
Lake Ontario's drainage basin. Lake Ontario is the easternmost of the Great Lakes and the smallest in surface area (7,340 sq mi, 19,000 km 2), [5] although it exceeds Lake Erie in volume (393 cu mi, 1,640 km 3). It is the 13th largest lake in the world. When its islands are included, the lake's shoreline is 712 miles (1,146 km) long.
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