. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. 4S4 AMERICAN FISHES. species is very uniform in its size, and averages ten to twelve pounds. It is seldom or never seen in the rivers in THE CHOUICHA OR QUINXAT SALMON. The Quinnat Salmon, Oncorhynchus chouicha, ascends the large rivers of California and occurs northward to the Yukon in Alaska. This is the largest and most important species of the genus, it is said to reach one hundred pounds in weight. It is easily ca
. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. 4S4 AMERICAN FISHES. species is very uniform in its size, and averages ten to twelve pounds. It is seldom or never seen in the rivers in THE CHOUICHA OR QUINXAT SALMON. The Quinnat Salmon, Oncorhynchus chouicha, ascends the large rivers of California and occurs northward to the Yukon in Alaska. This is the largest and most important species of the genus, it is said to reach one hundred pounds in weight. It is easily caught with hook and line in the fresh-waters, where it goes to deposit its eggs. It does not readily take a fly, but becomes an easy victim when tempted with salmon roe, which is the most effective of all baits for catching this fish. When prime it very much resembles in appearance the well known Atlantic Salmon {Salmo salar) in the same condition, with this exception, that it has on its back and sides nearly black, star-like spots, while the Alantic Salmon, when fresh from the ocean has none. The California Salmon is a remarkable fish, and has an extraordinary career. Fifty years ago it was hardly known, except to students of natural history. Now it is known and eaten almost all over the world, for there is hardly a port in the world where ships have not carried the canned Salmon of the Columbia, which is the same fish under a different name; and not only has this fish, in the form of food, traveled nearly all over the world, but the living embryos of the California Salmon have been trans- ported to England, France, Cermany, Belgium, Denmark, Russia, Austra- lia, and New Zealand, so that there is probably no one fish inhabiting a limited locality which is known over the world in so many different places as the California Salmon. An admirable biography of this species by Mr. Livingston Stone, may be found in the Quarto Fishery Please note that these images are extracted
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