54 FISH HARVESTING. 



the Colville Indians Keasoo, by the Chinooks 

 Ekewan, by the Clallams Kutch-kutch - - the 

 Hooked Snout of the fur-traders, Salmo lycaodon 

 of Pallas, Zoog. Russ. Asiat 



When fresh-run, this fish in colour is of a 

 silvery-grey lustre ; back, overshot with a 

 greenish hue; belly, silvery-white ; no spots 

 on either the back or sides. The hooked nose, 

 said to be peculiar to the male fish after 

 spawning, is a well-marked, constant, and speci- 

 fic character in every fresh-run fish, the females 

 having at all times symmetrical jaws. I found, 

 from carefully observing great numbers of these 

 fresh-run males, that the hooked state of the snout 

 differs very materially in fish arriving at the same 

 period ; and I am quite convinced that large num- 

 bers of these salmon do get back again to the 

 saltwater after spawning, and that the strange 

 change that takes place in the hooking over of 

 the snout and growth of .the teeth, during their 

 sojourn in the rivers, remains a permanent mark ; 

 and the vast difference observable in the males, 

 at the time of arrival, is simply attributable to 

 the fact, that those having the large fanglike 

 teeth and tremendously crooked snout are such 

 as have been up the rivers perhaps the year before, 

 or, it may be, long prior to that period. 



