. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. 484 ;R/CAX FISHES. spcric's is very tiniforni in its size, and averages ten to twelve pounds. It is seldom or never seen in the rivers in TIIK riKinciIA OU yUISXAT SALMON. The Quinnat Salmon, Oncorhynchus choiiicha, ascends the large rivers of California anil occurs northward to the Yukon in Alaska. This is the largest and most important species of the genus, it is said to reach on
. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. 484 ;R/CAX FISHES. spcric's is very tiniforni in its size, and averages ten to twelve pounds. It is seldom or never seen in the rivers in TIIK riKinciIA OU yUISXAT SALMON. The Quinnat Salmon, Oncorhynchus choiiicha, ascends the large rivers of California anil occurs northward to the Yukon in Alaska. This is the largest and most important species of the genus, it is said to reach one hundred pounds in weight. It is easil)- caught with hook and line in the fresh-waters, where it goes to dejjosit its eggs. It does not readily take a fly, but becomes an easy victim when tempted with salmon roe, which is the most effective of all baits for catching this When prime it very much resembles in appearance the well knov n Atlantic Salmon {Salino sa/ar) in the same condition, with this excejjtion, that it has on its back and sides nearly black, star-like spots, while the Alantic Salmon, when fresh from the ocean has none. The California Salmon is a remarkable fish, and has an extraordinary career. Fifty years ago it was hardly known, excejjt to students of natural history. Now it is known and eaten almost all over the world, for there is hardly a jiort in the world where ships have not carried the canned Salmon of the Columbia, which is the same fish untler a different name; and not only has this fish, in the form of fooil, traveled nearly all over the world, but the living embryos of the California Salmon have been trans- l)orted to England, France, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Russia, Austra- lia, and New Zealand, so that there is ])robably no one fish inhabiting a limited locality which is known over the world in so many different places as the California Salmon. An admirable biograi)hy of this species by Mr. Livingston Stone, may be found in the Quarto Fish
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