Abstract
IN June and July, 1962, 156 ‘clean’ salmon Salmo salar L. caught at sea by drift nets off the North Mayo coast were marked with a Lea's hydrostatic tag and released at once. One of these (length 65 cm) released on June 29 was recaptured on July 28 near Ängelholm in southern Sweden, having travelled a distance of more than 1,750 km. While a number of Irish tagged salmon have been recovered in Great Britain, mostly in Scotland, this is the first occasion on which a recapture has been made in Continental Europe.
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MORIARTY, C. Movement of Salmon. Nature 196, 595 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/196595a0
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