keeper ((2))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a fish large enough to keep, being of the legal minimum size.

Quotations

1957

Similarly, Alberta scrapped the regulation saying 'keeper" trout had to be at least eight inches long.

1963

A survey of the lake four years ago showed that the annual catch of keeper muskies (28 inches and up) was between 1,000 and 1,100.