{"id":124891,"date":"2016-02-29T12:30:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T12:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/effective-release-techniques-for-muskellunge-1999\/"},"modified":"2016-02-29T12:30:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T12:30:52","slug":"effective-release-techniques-for-muskellunge-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/effective-release-techniques-for-muskellunge-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Effective Release Techniques for Muskellunge &#8211; 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-966\" src=\"https:\/\/muskiescanadadotca.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/omnr_001.png?w=600\" alt=\"OMNR_001\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;background:#F5F6CE;border:1px solid black;font-size:70%;\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/muskiescanadadotca.wordpress.com\/category\/omnr-publications\/\">ici<\/a> to view summaries from all archived OMNR publications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1999<\/strong>. <em>Effective Release Techniques for Muskellunge &#8211; 1999.<\/em> Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Peterborough, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>The muskellunge (Esox masquinongy) or muskie as it is commonly known, is a fast growing predator and highly prized torophy fish.\u00a0 The muskie is closely related to the northern pike (Esox lucius) which leads some inexperienced anglers to mistake the two since their shapes are nearly identical.<\/p>\n<p>Colouration is probably the easiest way to separate the species.\u00a0 The colour of the muskie is variable, ranging from silver-green to dark brown, but is consistent with dark markings on a light background.\u00a0 In contrast, the northern pike has light markings on a dark background.\u00a0 Muskies have a pointed tail and angular fins: the pike&#8217;s tail and fins are rounded.\u00a0 Musies have more scales on their cheeks and more sub-mandibular pors than pike.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/download the full report by clicking the link below (PDF &#8211; 850 KB)<br \/>\n<a title=\"OMNR_Effective Release Techniques for Muskellunge_1999\" href=\"https:\/\/muskiescanadadotca.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/omnr_effective-release-techniques-for-muskellunge_1999.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">OMNR_Effective Release Techniques for Muskellunge_1999<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to view summaries from all archived OMNR publications. 1999. Effective Release Techniques for Muskellunge &#8211; 1999. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Peterborough, Ontario. The muskellunge (Esox masquinongy) or muskie as it is commonly known, is a fast growing predator and highly prized torophy fish.\u00a0 The muskie is closely related to the northern pike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-omnr-mfpp-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}