DCHP-3

unknown fish

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a fresh-water food fish, Stenodus mackenzii, native to the rivers and lakes of the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, having pinkish flesh when prime and averaging about twelve pounds, though occasionally running as high as forty.

See: inconnu

Quotations

1947
The "Unknown fish," or "conny" as it is more often called, looks like an overgrown whitefish and turns the scales between twenty and forty pounds.