THE SALMONS 



the caption of **The Sea Salmon and its Landlocked 

 Congener," these fishes are described more fully on 

 other pages of this volume. 



The only Pacific salmon that has been trans- 

 planted to New England waters is the species 

 known popularly as the " quinnat salmon"; it 

 bears, however, many other vernacular names, such 

 as king salmon, Columbia salmon, Sacramento sal- 

 mon, chinook salmon, saw-kwey or sauk-eye, etc. 

 The color of the flesh is red and rich, particularly 

 in the early spring when fresh run from the sea; 

 and it is the largest of salmons, individual fish hav- 

 ing been taken weighing seventy to one hundred 

 pounds. These qualities render it highly prized as 

 a commercial fish, and with this in view, the 

 National and State Fish Commissions planted the 

 species in the various rivers of the New England 

 and Middle States, but with no success. A few of 

 the quinnats returned for a year or two to the 

 waters into which they were originally introduced, 

 and then gradually lessened in numbers, and finally 

 disappeared. 



Of the whitefishes [Coregonus)^ there are six gen- 

 era and subgenera and twenty-one species and sub- 

 species. Of these, including the ciscoes so-called, 

 there are only eight varietal forms found in New 

 England waters and those of Eastern Canada, the 



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