60 FISH HAKVESTING. 



I have often seen them where the water was so 

 shallow as to leave their backs uncovered. 



The Salmo canis of Suckley (Dog-Salmon, 

 Spotted Salmon, ' Natural History of Washing- 

 ton Territory,' p. 341), which he says arrives at 

 Puget's Sound in September and October, I be- 

 lieve to be only the old males of the Salino lycao- 

 don (Hook-nosed Salmon), that have had a turn 

 in the rivers perhaps a year or two before, and 

 have got safely back again to the sea, recruited 

 their wasted energies, and returned again for 

 another perilous cruise up the streams. The 

 large fanglike teeth, from which they derive the 

 name of dog-salmon, are the large teeth grown 

 and developed, as I have previously described 

 them, whilst spawning in the fresh water. 



Salmon is of the most vital importance to the 

 Indians ; deprived or by any means cut off from 

 obtaining it, starve to death they must; and 

 were we at war with the Redskins, we need only 

 cut them off from their salmon-fisheries to have 

 them completely at our mercy. If salmon-fish- 

 eries well managed, and conducted by persons 

 who thoroughly understood salting, barreling, 

 and curing salmon were established on some of 

 the tributaries to the Fraser and Columbia rivers, 

 I am quite convinced they would pay handsomely. 



