THE SEA-SALMON 



established, owing to inefficient data, but the pre- 

 sumption is in favor of that conclusion." 



Salmon from twenty-nine to thirty-one inches 

 in length generally weigh, including the eggs, 

 from nine to twelve pounds, and yield six thou- 

 sand to eight thousand seven hundred eggs, and an 

 occasional fish of thirty-five to forty inches will 

 yield sixteen thousand to twenty thousand eggs. 



The salmon seems to be gifted with much 

 intelligence, which is more particularly brought 

 into prominence when danger signals are abroad. 

 They have been known, when congregated in the 

 upper pools, to get frightened by poachers with net 

 or spear, to immediately run down the stream fully 

 thirty miles at night, not stopping until they reached 

 pools so deep that they could not be taken with 

 the appliances of the poacher. They seemed to 

 know that if they went higher up the stream 

 their doom was sealed. 



When coming in schools, entering the estuary 

 from the sea, they have been seen with an old 

 leader at the head and the rest forming a triangle 

 about two and a half feet below the surface, and, 

 on calm days, guided by the old patriarch, the 

 school has been seen around the fishermen's nets, 

 never approaching them within ten or twelve 

 yards. 



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