Do you suppose salmon know the difference?
Nov. 5th, 2007 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mbarkerAt lunch time, the furosato (home country) story on the news was about the salmon fishing up in Hokkaido. And I got to laughing. See, the announcers asked the owner of the yamazuke (salted preserved salmon) factory how to tell the difference between male and female salmon. So the owner lifts one in each hand, and says "Just look - the noses are different." And the announcers nod, as if this answered the question. But what I found especially funny was that in a similar show last week with a different salmon related bunch, the expert had told us to look at the eyes and the curve at the end of the lip!
I wonder if anyone has done a comparison of the various methods of identifying male/female salmon. It's the nose, it's the eyes, it's the curve of the lip. What fun.
Of course, each of them has plenty of practice, with the practical feedback of finding eggs or not. So their pet method probably does work - at least for them.
And I have a suspicion that they probably let their eyes glance at the width of the body and the fullness of the belly, in any case, which might be even more likely to give away the sexual orientation of the salmon in question, eh?
I wonder if anyone has done a comparison of the various methods of identifying male/female salmon. It's the nose, it's the eyes, it's the curve of the lip. What fun.
Of course, each of them has plenty of practice, with the practical feedback of finding eggs or not. So their pet method probably does work - at least for them.
And I have a suspicion that they probably let their eyes glance at the width of the body and the fullness of the belly, in any case, which might be even more likely to give away the sexual orientation of the salmon in question, eh?
