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Message:: [QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8190859, member: 20201"]Something fishy 1972 circa Longines Symphonette Blue Pike .925 Silver medal [ATTACH=full]1434001[/ATTACH] The blue walleye (Sander vitreus glaucus), also called the blue pike, is a subspecies of the walleye that has been critically endangered in the Great Lakes since the 1980s. Until the middle of the 20th century, it was a commercially valuable fish, with about a half million tonnes being landed from about 1880 to the late 1950s, when the populations collapsed. The fish was endemic to lakes Erie and Ontario of the Great Lakes region of North America, including the interconnecting Niagara River, but most especially to Lake Erie. There are verified reports of occasional catches of this rare walleye/sauger cousin yet today. This medal in error shows a "Silver Pike" a close relative to the Northern Pike and scarce fish as well. It is sometimes called a "Blue Pike" and I have been in a boat with my father and a guide in Lake Sharbot Ont. when a very healthy and large one was caught. Unlike the Northern Pike, this fish was immediately identified by our guide when it jumped several times after being hooked. [ATTACH=full]1434002[/ATTACH] 1979 America's Natural Legacy ATLANTIC SALMONLongines Symphonette Sterling Silver Medal [ATTACH=full]1433999[/ATTACH] The average size of Atlantic salmon is 28-30 inches long and 8-12 pounds after two years at sea. Although uncommon, adults can grow to be as large as 30 pounds.Atlantic salmon have a relatively complex life history that includes spawning, juvenile rearing in rivers, and extensive feeding migrations on the high seas. As a result, Atlantic salmon go through several distinct phases that can be identified by specific changes in behavior, physiology, and habitat requirements. The Atlantic salmon is an anadromous fish, typically spending 2-3 years in freshwater, migrating to the ocean where it also spends 2-3 years, and then returning to its natal river to spawn.Suitable spawning habitat consists of gravel or rubble in areas of moving water. Eggs hatch in March or April and become fry.Fry remain buried in the gravel for about six weeks. The fry emerge from the gravel about mid-May and start feeding on plankton and small invertebrates. Emergent fry quickly disperse from nests (called redds) within the gravel. They develop camouflaging stripes along their sides, and enter what is termed the parr stage.Parr habitat, often called "nursery habitat," is typically riffle areas characterized by adequate cover, shallow water depth, and moderate to fast water flow.Salmon parr spend 2-3 years in freshwater and then undergo a physiological transformation called smoltification that prepares them for life in a marine habitat.Atlantic salmon leave Maine rivers in the spring and reach Newfoundland and Labrador by mid-summer.They spend their first winter at sea south of Greenland. After the first winter at sea, a small percentage return to Maine while the majority spend a second year at sea, feeding off the southwest or, to a much lesser extent, the southeast coast of Greenland. Some Maine salmon are also found in waters along the Labrador coast.After a second winter in the Labrador Sea, most Maine salmon return to rivers in Maine, with a small number returning the following year as what is referred to as three sea winter fish. [ATTACH=full]1434000[/ATTACH] 1971 St. Anthony of PaduaFranklin Mint Bronze Medal [ATTACH=full]1434004[/ATTACH] Wherefore on a day Saint Anthony being in Rimini, where was great company of heretics, desiring to bring them back to the light Antony of the true faith and to the path of virtue, preached unto them for many days, and disputed of the faith of Christ and of the Holy Scripture: but they not only gave no consent unto his holy words, but therewithal, as men hardened and stiff-necked, would give no ear unto him. Inspired of God, Saint Anthony went one day to the river-side hard by the sea; and standing thus upon the bank betwixt the river and the sea, began to speak after the manner of a preacher sent by God unto the fishes: "Hear the word of God, O ye fishes of the sea and of the river, since the infidel heretics refuse to hear it." And when he had thus spoken, forthwith there came unto him to the bank a multitude of fishes, great and small and what between, that never in that sea nor in that river had been seen so great a multitude; and they all held up their heads above the water and all stood attentive towards the face of Saint Anthony, one and all in much great peace and gentleness and order; for in front and more a-nigh the bank stood the smaller fish, and behind them stood the fish of middle size, further behind where deeper water was the greater fishes stood. Therewith the fishes being thuswise set in order and array.andSaint Anthony of Padua is also the Catholic Patron Saint for finding lost things. [ATTACH=full]1434005[/ATTACH] This is NOT where the expression  'Holy mackerel' originated. LOL[/QUOTE]

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