Forest, Lake^andRiver 



THE SALMONS 



THE salmon family, Salmonida^ consists 

 of fourteen genera and subgenera and 

 seventy species and subspecies. These 

 include the whitefishes, the ciscoes or 

 lake herrings, the " inconnu " of Arctic America 

 (an intermediate form between the whitefish and 

 the trout), the sea-salmons of the Pacific and the 

 Atlantic coasts and streams, the salmon-trouts, the 

 charr-trouts, and the Great Lake trouts, all of which 

 have the characteristic fatty or adipose small second 

 dorsal fin situated on their backs near the tail fin. 

 All the above species, except the commercial or 

 common whitefish, are noted for their activity and 

 game qualities, particularly one of the whitefishes, 

 — the species known as the " Rocky Mountain 

 whitefish " or " mountain herring," which rises 

 greedily to the artificial fly and fights viciously. 



Many species, notably the salmons of the Pacific 

 (five species) and the Atlantic form (one species), 

 invariably go down to the ocean after spawning, 

 and those known as trouts on the Pacific slope also 

 do so when access to salt water is at hand. Our 



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