. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] illustrated from nature by the author. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. salmonida:. 63 Dr. Knox seems to have erred merely in supposing that the pinks, the size of the little finger, wore from the ova hatched in April, when they were probably from an earlier hatching of fish, which spawned at a more remote date. It seems, however, to be clearly and certainly established by these experiments, that the smolt, or laspring, as they are sometimes called, which descend the rivers eve
. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] illustrated from nature by the author. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. salmonida:. 63 Dr. Knox seems to have erred merely in supposing that the pinks, the size of the little finger, wore from the ova hatched in April, when they were probably from an earlier hatching of fish, which spawned at a more remote date. It seems, however, to be clearly and certainly established by these experiments, that the smolt, or laspring, as they are sometimes called, which descend the rivers every spring toward the middle of May, are a whole year older than the pinks, which are taken in the same waters, at the same time, and by the same fly. With regard to the later growth of the Salmon, I am not of opinion that the lake experiments prove much, if anything, either pro or con ; since it is a known and established fact, that salt-water has a recupe- rative influence upon the mature fish which run down the rivers ex- hausted by spawning, and also a certain tendency to increase the growth of the young fish which descend the streams, smolts, as it now appears, in their second year, of six or seven inches length, and about as many ounces weight, and return peal or grilse, varying from two to eight pounds. It must be observed here, that grilse is the correct name of the fish on its return from the sea in its second season, and that peal is merely a fishmonger's term for a small grilse not exceeding two pounds' weight. That the identical smolt of six or seven ounces do return, after two or three months' absence in the sea, as grilse of as many pounds' weight, is proved beyond all dispute ; smolts innumerable having been taken, marked with numbered tickets of zinc attached to the rays of their dorsal fins, set at liberty, and recaptured grilse, varying from two to eight pounds, in the autumn of the same year. The same experiment, with the labels unremoved, shows that the same
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