This is a Landlocked salmon, caught by my dad in Grand Lakes Stream, Maine. These fish have a very interesting story. They are technically the exact same species as the Atlantic salmon, but they live a completely different lifestyle. Atlantic salmon live most of their life out in the ocean, only returning to the fresh water rivers that they were born in to reproduce and die. Landlocked salmon, however, have evolved in a completely separate way. They live their whole life in freshwater lakes and rivers, never making the trip to the ocean that their relatives do.
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