Landlocked Salmon Print
Landlocked Salmon Print
Size
12 × 18 in overall, unframed. The plate sits on an ivory sheet with a border of about an inch, so it fits a standard ready-made frame of the same size, with or without a mat.
Printed on 189 g/m² (10.3 mil) enhanced matte paper.
Want it ready to hang? The same plate comes framed in Black or Red Oak.
Female and male ouananiche, the salmon of Sebago Lake and the Adirondacks.
The print
- The full plate with its name, legend and credits, re-rendered from the source scan at print size, not enlarged from a shirt file.
- Restored from a library scan of the original book; nothing redrawn.
- Keep out of direct sunlight; a frame with glass or acrylic keeps it clean.
Shipping & production
Each print is printed for you after you order, usually within 2–5 business days, and ships on its own (separate from any shirts or framed prints in the same order). Shipping is shown at checkout before you pay.
Returns
If your print arrives damaged or misprinted, contact us within 30 days of delivery with a photo and we'll send a replacement or a refund. Because every print is made to order, we can't accept returns for a change of mind.
Plate 015
From the book
- Species
- Salmo salar
- As named in the book
- Land-locked Salmon or Ouananiche; Salmo salar sebago Girard.
- Artist
- S. F. Denton
- Book
- Second Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York, 1897
Then and now
An Atlantic salmon that lives its whole life in fresh water.
Field notes
An Atlantic salmon that never goes to sea.
Most Atlantic salmon live in two worlds: born in a river, grown at sea, home again to spawn. In a handful of northern lakes, some simply stayed. Generation after generation they've lived their whole lives in fresh water.
New York's 1896 report printed Sherman Denton's female and male under a name that says where they came from: "Land Locked Salmon or Ouananiche." Ouananiche is the Canadian name for the salmon of Lac Saint-Jean in Quebec; in Maine they were Sebago salmon, after the lake with the most celebrated population.
Their world depends on a smaller fish. In Maine's lakes landlocked salmon feed mostly on rainbow smelt, and when the smelt are thin the salmon are too, so biologists who manage salmon spend much of their time managing smelt. Maine made it the state fish in 1969.