Conservatives use photo of wrong type of salmon in campaign ad

Stephen Harper announced a $15 million plan to protect salmon habitatin B.Clast week, but the Tories made a bit of a blunder rolling out the news online. The Conservativesused a picture of an Atlantic salmon instead of a Pacific salmon in posts touting the planon social media and on the party website.

The photo is easily searchable on the iStock online photo database, where it is listed with the keyword "Atlantic Ocean".

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The Conservativesquickly deletedthe photo and replaced it with one of aPacific salmon, but not before it caught the notice of the Ottawa Citizen anduserson Twitter.

The Green Party was quick to jump on theerror.

Others pointed out how big of an offence it is tomistake asalmon in B.C.

It turns out the"wrong fish" was not even from Canada at all. It's actuallyfrom the U.K.

The Ottawa Citizen found out the photowas taken byphotographerLee Sutterby in Hexham, a market town in thenorth east part of the U.K.

And that revelation brought it back full circle to another government program.

Justin Trudeau's top adviser Gerald Butts was among those who made cracks aboutthe temporary foreign workers program.

Some were wondering why the Conservatives didn't just ask the Scouts.

There wasmore to the salmon announcement than the photofauxpas. The campaign stop also introduced the world to the 'Middle Kid' a scout who sassily stood beside Harper and became a social media star.

A spokesperson for Scouts Canada saysit isagainst scoutspolicy to have anyone in a uniform involved in political activities. Some on Twittercombined this confusion with the misidentified fish.

And of course, it wouldn't be #elxn42 if thatangry old Tory supporter didn'tmake an appearance too.