Salmon Biology
This fin is unique to salmonids.
Adipose fin
In 2008, this ASF staff member received their motorcycle license.
Anita!
The largest Atlantic salmon ever caught on a fly in North America was landed in this river.
Restigouche River
In 1981, the ASA and IASF joined forces to form this organization.
The Atlantic Salmon Federation!
The Mi'kmaq word for salmon.
Plamu
This stage describes a salmon that has recently hatched from its egg and is still attached to its yolk sac.
An alevin
During their ski- jumping career, this ASF staff member once jumped 90 meters on a 70-meter hill.
Charles!
Atlantic Canada's longest river.
Churchill River
A term for both a shallow, fast-moving stretch of water and a way to give monthly.
A Riffle
The Salmon of Knowledge comes from what national folklore.
Irish Folklore
This distinctive characteristic of Atlantic salmon is found above the lateral line but does not extend below it.
Spots
This ASF Staff member has broken 8 bones.
David!
Under the Fisheries Act, this river could become Canada’s first Ecologically and Biologically Significant Area (EBSA).
St. Mary's River
In 1987, a pact would unite all six Regional Councils.
The Matapedia Accord
This ghost of a lumber-camp cook is said to haunt a lodge on the Dungarvon River in New Brunswick.
Dungarvon Whopper
A parr that reaches sexual maturity without migrating to the sea is considered this.
A precocious parr
Which ASF staff member was found cutting re-bar at like a madman at midnight for a counting fence?
Neville!
Nicknamed “The Big River,” this Newfoundland waterway is renowned for its high annual salmon returns and flows through the town of Deer Lake before emptying into the Atlantic.
Humber River
Following an inappropriate romp in the Presidential office, prior to Bill Taylor’s appointment, ASF was reportedly featured in this satirical publication?
Frank Magazine
A salmon shaped like a “G” is the symbol of this prominent settler group in Nova Scotia.
Gaelic Nova Scotians
During smoltification, these gill cells grow larger and more numerous, and shift position to help Atlantic salmon excrete salt in seawater.
Chloride cells/ mitochondria rich cells
This oversight-prone staff member forgot what essential mode of transport, resulting in a swim across the river with an electrofisher tucked into waders.
Graham!
This river is the only known location in Greenland where Atlantic salmon are known to spawn.
Kapisillit River
ASF was the first organization to detect European farmed salmon genes in North American escaped aquaculture salmon, publishing a peer reviewed article about the discovery in which year?
2006
In Norse Mythology, which god once transformed into a salmon to evade capture?
Loki