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In his daily policy announcement, Conservative leader Stephen Harper on Friday proposed measures that would help restore British Columbia’s salmon fishery.

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If re-elected, a Conservative government would spend $15 million on protecting B.C. salmon and preserving estuaries, Harper said in Campbell River, B.C. All well and good.

Like all Conservative policy unveils, Friday’s announcement was accompanied by a page on the party website, along with social media outreach, that featured the following image:

The fish in the photograph, however, is not a Pacific salmon. The markings — particularly the black spots around the gills — and fins strongly suggest that it is, in fact, an Atlantic salmon.

UPDATE: The image on the Conservative Party website was changed and Harper’s original tweet was deleted after this post pointed out the error.

The image was snapped by Lee Sutterby, a photographer in Northern England. (Apparently, a picture of a B.C. salmon taken by a Canadian photographer was not readily available.)