This Coho came aboard this summer while we were fishing off of Dall Island. The fish looked heathly and had no other obvious deformities. Has anyone else seen a split tail like this before on salmon species?
Commercial Fishing Photo Of The Day | Curious Coho
My impression is this fish had it’s tail nipped when younger by a predator. It looks healed over well. Clearly it was able to survive…….for a while anyway till it ran into a net.
Probably an old seal wound all healed up