. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE PACIFIC SALMON. 481 four or five pounds, and probably never exceeding ten. It ranges from the Sacramento River to Alaska, Behring Island and Kamtchatka. In the Sacramento and Columbia it is only an estray, on the latter river being sometimes called '' Lost ; In Puget Sound it runs in large num- bers in late summer and fall, like the Keta or Dog Salmon, ascending, every little stream. Its run in Puget Sound takes place on alterna
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE PACIFIC SALMON. 481 four or five pounds, and probably never exceeding ten. It ranges from the Sacramento River to Alaska, Behring Island and Kamtchatka. In the Sacramento and Columbia it is only an estray, on the latter river being sometimes called '' Lost ; In Puget Sound it runs in large num- bers in late summer and fall, like the Keta or Dog Salmon, ascending, every little stream. Its run in Puget Sound takes place on alternate years,, a fact which seems to be well, established. It was very plenty in 1879, None were noticed in 1880, but stragglers are occasionally taken during the year of scarcity. A few were seen by us on the Columbia and Sacra- mento. We are told that this species runs every year in Alaska. During its run in Puget Sound the females are canned, and the males are thrown away or given to the Indians. The flesh is then pale, and the canned product is inferior in quality. In economic value the Hump-back Sal- mon is far inferior to the Quinnat, the Blue-back and the Silver Salmon, and, like the Dog Salmon, is mainly useful in furnishing a winter supply of food to the Indians. - \^v^. ^?^^=^^ THE XERKA SALMON. The Nerka or Blue-back Salmon, OncorJiynchus nerka, writes Jordan, known as the "Red-fish" to the English-speaking inhabitants of Alaska and Kamtchatka, and to the Russians, now as in the time of Pennant and Pallas, as '^Krasnaya Ryba," \yhich signifies red-fish, the name having reference to the color of the flesh. It is not unlikely that other species are occasionally confounded under this name, but there is little doubt that the present species is the one to which it is chiefly applied. On Frazer River, where this species is the most important Salmon, it is known as the ''Suk-kegh," ''Saw-quai" or "; Elsewhere in Puget Sound it is rare
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