Northwest Wisconsin. Dropped from an ospray nest.

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    The only fish I can think of that might’ve dropped the Bic is a smoked haddock.

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    I don’t think this is a scale, it looks an awful lot like an otolith, which is a calcium carbonate buildup from inside a fishes head. These are often used by biologists to age a fish similar to counting rings on a tree.

    I still don’t know what species would have one shaped like that but it may help you to look in better places to identify it.

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      1 year ago

      It has a socket at the left side. Like a ball in socket joint.

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    The only one I can think of that is capable of that much inflation is a puffer fish.

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    1 year ago

    Here are more bones. But I don’t think that they are all from the same fish.

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    How far northwest? If close enough to lake Superior, maybe a lake whitefish. If not very close to lake Superior or other deep lakes, possibly a white sucker or quillback, which I grew up calling a sheepshead.

    Scroll through this and you can check out the whiter fish with larger scales.

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    Don’t know if it’s enough to go on, but I figured I’d see…