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Fin Regeneration in Brown Trout
Author(s) -
Heacox Cecil
Publication year - 1943
Publication title -
transactions of the american fisheries society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1548-8659
pISSN - 0002-8487
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8659(1942)72[231:fribt]2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - clipping (morphology) , brown trout , regeneration (biology) , fin , fish <actinopterygii> , biology , fishery , trout , engineering , philosophy , mechanical engineering , linguistics , microbiology and biotechnology
In recent years, fin‐clipping has become a widely‐used method of distinctively marking fish for future identification. A check on possible regeneration in this type of marking is desirable. The following paper presents data on the clipping of ventral fins of yearling brown trout for two successive years.