Fishes . Fio. 225. -Humpback Salmon (female), Oncorhynchus gorhuscha (\\a\hsMm).Cooks Inlet. black spots, the back usually immaculate. It is one of the smallersalmon, and is fairly abundant in the streams of Hokkaido,the island formerly known as Yezo. Of these species the blue-back or red salmon predominatesin Frazer River and in most of the small rivers of Alaska, includ-. • Fig. 226 —Masu (female), Oncorhynchus masou (Brevoort). Aomori, Japan. ing all those which flow from lakes. The greatest salmon riversof the world are the Nushegak and Karluk in Alaska, with theColumbia River, Frazer Rive
Fishes . Fio. 225. -Humpback Salmon (female), Oncorhynchus gorhuscha (\\a\hsMm).Cooks Inlet. black spots, the back usually immaculate. It is one of the smallersalmon, and is fairly abundant in the streams of Hokkaido,the island formerly known as Yezo. Of these species the blue-back or red salmon predominatesin Frazer River and in most of the small rivers of Alaska, includ-. • Fig. 226 —Masu (female), Oncorhynchus masou (Brevoort). Aomori, Japan. ing all those which flow from lakes. The greatest salmon riversof the world are the Nushegak and Karluk in Alaska, with theColumbia River, Frazer River, and Sacramento River farthersouth. The red and the silver salmon predominate in PugetSound, the quinnat in the Columbia and the Sacramento, andthe silver salmon in most of the smaller streams along the the species occur, however, from the Columbia northward; Salmonids 297 but the blue-back is not found in the Sacramento. Only thequinnat and the dog-salmon have been noticed south of SanFrancisco. In Japan keta is by far the most abundant species ofsalmon. It is known as sake, and largely salted and sold in themarkets. Nerka is known in Japan only as landlocked in Lake Akanin northern Hokkaido. Milktschitsch is generally common, andwith mason is known as masu, or small salmon, as distinguishedfrom the large salmon, or sake. TscJiawytscJia and gorbusch
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