![]() ![]() If it had pink flesh, as wild salmon do from eating crustaceans, it was because at the hatchery it had been given food pellets laced with artificial colouring.īut at least it was an Atlantic salmon. ![]() It was, in other words, a domesticated fish. It was never a wild fish - there hasn't been a wild Atlantic salmon in the Margaree or anywhere else for decades - but had been released as a fingerling from a hatchery located a mile upstream from the inn. The fish weighed 33 pounds when caught, not a record for the world-famous salmon runs on the Margaree River, but an impressive fish nonetheless. On a wall of an inn in western Cape Breton Island hangs a photograph of two fly fishermen holding a fish. ![]()
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