Word: silverspot
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Last week the Bemidji, Minn., Fish Hatchery telephoned long distance to its officials to tell them that Old Silverspot, matriarch of wall-eye pike, was safe at the hatchery. She had been missing for two years. Hatchery men had thought she was dead of old age or had been a fisherman's prize 25-lb. catch. Fish officials hurried to Bemidji, found her swimming in a tub. They took her picture as Minnesota's mother of millions...
...fish first appeared in hatchery nets twelve years ago, a chunky, gold-gleaming adult of 12 lb.† Hatchery men noticed a peculiar shining spot in front of her dorsal fin, named her Silverspot. Every year for ten years she was caught in Minnesota Lake waters, taken to the hatchery, stripped of her eggs and released. At one stripping she gave some 300,000 eggs...
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