. 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 PA CIFIC SALMON. 483 valuable of the different species, and its inferiority is mainly that of size. It has been artificially propagated by the Canadian government. The Kisutch, or Silver Salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, writes Jordan, is almost everywhere known by the name of " Silver ; It has also a series of local names. In Kamtchatka it is still known by the name "Kisutch," in use in Pennant's time, a hundred year
. 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 PA CIFIC SALMON. 483 valuable of the different species, and its inferiority is mainly that of size. It has been artificially propagated by the Canadian government. The Kisutch, or Silver Salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, writes Jordan, is almost everywhere known by the name of " Silver ; It has also a series of local names. In Kamtchatka it is still known by the name "Kisutch," in use in Pennant's time, a hundred years ago. The name " Bielaya Ryba," or "White-fish," is also ascribed to it. On Frazer River it is known by the Musquaw name of " Coho;" at Seattle, by the Nisqually name of " Skowitz ;" about Cape Flattery by the Makah name of "Hoopid;" on the Columbia it is called " Silver Salmon " or "White Salmon," and southward the same names prevail. It reaches a weight of twenty pounds, the usual range being from seven to ten. The Silver Salmon enters all the rivers from Sacramento to Behring Island and Kamt- chatka. In the fall it is abundant in probably all the rivers. Few or none, however, are seen in the spring. They are often taken with seines in Puget Sound at all seasons. Like the other fall-running Salmon, they seldom ascend the rivers to any great THE KETi. The Keta, Oncorhynchus keia (Walb.) Gill and Jordan, occurs on the Pacific coast from San Francisco northward to Hotham Inlet, Alaska. This species, during the period of its run in the fall, generally goes by the name of " Dog Salmon," under which- name the males of the Silver Salmon, and even of the Quinnat, are often confounded with it. The Russians now, as in the time of Pennant, Pallas and Walbaum, call it "Kayko," the name "Keta" (whale) being no longer in use. On Frazer River the name (Musquaw) is now "Qualoc
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