Fishes . y in taste when canned. It issaid to take salt well, and great numbers of salt dog-salmon areconsumed in Japan. The htimpback salmon, or pink salmon {Oncorhynchtis gor-buscha), is the smallest of the American species, weighing from3 to 5 pounds. It has usua-lly 15 anal rays, 12 branchiostegals,28 (13-+15) gill-rakers, and about 180 pyloric coeca. Its scalesare much smaller than in any other salmon, there being 180to 240 in the lateral line. In color it is bluish above, silverybelow, the posterior and upper parts with many round blackspots, the caudal fin always having a few large blac
Fishes . y in taste when canned. It issaid to take salt well, and great numbers of salt dog-salmon areconsumed in Japan. The htimpback salmon, or pink salmon {Oncorhynchtis gor-buscha), is the smallest of the American species, weighing from3 to 5 pounds. It has usua-lly 15 anal rays, 12 branchiostegals,28 (13-+15) gill-rakers, and about 180 pyloric coeca. Its scalesare much smaller than in any other salmon, there being 180to 240 in the lateral line. In color it is bluish above, silverybelow, the posterior and upper parts with many round blackspots, the caudal fin always having a few large black spotsoblong in form. The males in fall are dirty red, and are moreextravagantly distorted than in any other of the Salmonida. i 296 Salmonidae The flesh is softer than in the other species; it is pale in color,and, while of fair flavor when fresh, is distinctly inferior whencanned. The masu, or yezomasu (Oncorhynchus masoti), is very similarto the humpback, the scales a little larger, the caudal without. Fio. 225. -Humpback Salmon (female), Oncorhynchus gorhuscha (\\a\hsMm).Cooks Inlet. black spots, the back usually immaculate. It is one of the smallersalmon, and is fairly abundant in the streams of Hokkaido,the island formerly known as Yezo. Of these species the blue-back or red salmon predominatesin Frazer River and in most of the small rivers of Alaska, includ-
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