The Salmon 



lank, silvery kelts. As far as my experience goes kelts do not increase 

 in weight during their sojourn in fresh water, although they certainly 

 become much stronger. Their silvery appearance, however, deceives 



>, 6 years , 3 months 



' X X 



FIG. 89. 40 Ibs. a6th June 1907. 



the eye, just as a burnished bar of silver appears much larger to the 

 eye than a tarnished bar of the same size. 



The scale (Fig. 96) is a very interesting one, as it is taken Irom 

 the only male salmon I have ever seen in our fish-house on its second 

 return from the sea. Going down as a smolt, it came up a grilse in 

 1910; descending as a kelt in the spring of 1911, it returned to the 



