rUE UANANICHE 



should have left the sea to seek a home in fresh 

 water cannot be explained; but that they are true 

 Salmo salar, differing only in the few particulars 

 mentioned, due entirely to difference in environ- 

 ment, must be admitted. 



In the swiftest flowing and most turbulent cur- 

 rents, in the foam-covered waters at the bottom 

 of a rapid or in the boiling cauldron at the foot 

 of a fall, there and there only, during the greater 

 part of the year, is the ouananiche found. Its near 

 relative, the landlocked salmon of the Maine lakes, 

 is, beyond question, descended from the sea salmon 

 as well, and has had free access to the ocean. Its 

 home, however, is in the deep waters of lakes (ex- 

 cept in early spring), where it attains a weight far 

 in excess of the Canadian fish. Not infrequently, 

 it is taken weighing from fifteen to twenty pounds 

 and more. This would indicate some variance in 

 the two fish, although in general appearance their 

 similarity is marked. 



While in the majority of waters where found, 

 the ouananiche can, and to some extent does, seek 

 salt water, in others it is not possible to do so. 

 This is noted in the Hamilton River of Labrador, 

 where these fish are found above the great falls 

 (three hundred feet high). As geologists say these 

 falls have existed since the glacial period, the 



75 



