. The American angler's book : embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them : with instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making, and directions for fish-breeding : to which is appended, Dies piscatori, describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing : illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. ^'/'//^ \\ THE >T. LAVKENCE. ^W) CITADEL SALMON RIVERS. If the reader is curious as to the geography of the country where the Salmon makes its home in Canadian waters, let him write to Mr. William F. Whitcher,
. The American angler's book : embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them : with instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making, and directions for fish-breeding : to which is appended, Dies piscatori, describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing : illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. ^'/'//^ \\ THE >T. LAVKENCE. ^W) CITADEL SALMON RIVERS. If the reader is curious as to the geography of the country where the Salmon makes its home in Canadian waters, let him write to Mr. William F. Whitcher,* at Quebec, paying postage, of course, and enclosing a small sum of Canadian currency for the purchase, and procure a chart of the Salmon and Sea Trout Rivers, published by the * This gentleman is at the head of the Fisheries Branch of the Crown Land De- partment; an able, zealous, and, as one would think from his salary, as published in the Fisheries Reports, an underpaid oiBcer. All Salmon-fishers owe him a debt of gratitude for his successful efforts in protecting Salmon ; but for which, the rivers which yet remain to Canada would soon become as barren as our own. His know- ledge as an observer and writer has been extensively used by periodicals and in books, without his receiving the credit due to him. One instance of the kind is his discovery that Salmon in Canada frequently express their spawn and milt simulta- neously, by bodily contact, the male and female lying partially on their sides. That Salmon in generating ever resort to this mode, has never been mentioned by experi- menters or observers in Scotland or Ireland. (G07). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Norris, Thaddeus, 1811-1877. Philadelphia : E. H. Butler
Size: 1914px × 1305px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecad, booksubjectfishes, booksubjectfishing
