. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. 45° AMERICAX FISHES. ck']H)sit their eggs in dee]) furrows which they ])l()w up in the sandy or gravelly bottom of the stream, usually near th«' verge c>f a rapid. Euro- pean observers state that the furrows are shaped by the noses of the two parent fish, every nest being filled with eggs before the next one is made, and the first covered up by the sand which is loosened in digging the second,
. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. 45° AMERICAX FISHES. ck']H)sit their eggs in dee]) furrows which they ])l()w up in the sandy or gravelly bottom of the stream, usually near th«' verge c>f a rapid. Euro- pean observers state that the furrows are shaped by the noses of the two parent fish, every nest being filled with eggs before the next one is made, and the first covered up by the sand which is loosened in digging the second, chiefly by the action of the current. Mr. Atkins observed a female Land-locked Salmon excavating a nest by turning on her side and flopping violently against the bottom with her tail, while the male was engaged in driving away rivals and predaceous foes. Spawning is not accomplished at once, but the eggs, are deposited by installments, as fast as they mature, during a ],eriod of from five to twelve days. " When the furrow is made, the male and the female retire to a little distance, one to the one side, the other to the other side of the furrow ; they then throw themselves on their sides, again come together, and rublung together both shed their s|)a\vii into the furrow at the same ; This is the observa- tion of Mr. Ellis on the European Salmon, and a similar habit has been obscved by Mr. Whitcher in Canada. In the tributaries of the St. Lawrence, spawning begins by the middle of October; in Maine, with both Land-locked and Sea Salmon, a week or two later, and it is presum- able that in the Connecticut it will be found to occur well along towards December. In Great Britain and in the Rhine the season begins in October or November, continuing in some rivers till A YOUXG SALMON. Salmon eggs are about one-quarter of an inch in diameter, and of a bright reddish or yellowish hue. English fish-culturists estimate the num- ber of eggs yielded by a large fi
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