. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. nt inhabitant of rivermouths. It probably spawns late in the fall or in the winter, as many ofthose taken at the first run of the Salmon are spent fish, with the fleshwhite and worthless. Its history, writes Jordan, is still obscure. According to Pallas, itmigrates singly, from June to September; some remaining all the year inthe rivers, returning to the sea in May. It feeds in the fresh waters, onany living thing. Hence, unlike the other Trout, wdiich
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. nt inhabitant of rivermouths. It probably spawns late in the fall or in the winter, as many ofthose taken at the first run of the Salmon are spent fish, with the fleshwhite and worthless. Its history, writes Jordan, is still obscure. According to Pallas, itmigrates singly, from June to September; some remaining all the year inthe rivers, returning to the sea in May. It feeds in the fresh waters, onany living thing. Hence, unlike the other Trout, wdiich during the ascentof the rivers grow^ lean with fasting, breeding, and exertion, this speciesis plump and well fed, and, with Salvcliniis inalma only, does not i)erishin the winter. Elsewhere than in the Columbia this species is highlyvalued as a food-fish. When taken in the Columbia, in spring, little or no 456 AMERICAN FISHES. use is made of it. Its flesh is pale, and its bones too firm for it to be usedin canning, while old individuals taken in the canning season are usuallyspent and worthless. In the Sacramento it is not very
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