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dead water well stocked in the morning, utterly de- 

 serted at night, owing to having been exposed to a 

 high wind. However much inclined salmon may be 

 to enter fresh water, a high wind has great effect on 

 their movements. If the wind bl(3\vs to the shore, 

 they go straight out to sea, and do not approach 

 the estuary again until it changes. On the other 

 hand, should the wind blow from the shore, the 

 fish come in with the tide even when the river itself 

 is dead low. 



PARASITES. 



Salmon are infested with three different kinds of 

 parasites ; one kind adhere to the oriUs, and ano-lers 

 give it the name of " Maggot " : the others to the 

 body, and are commonly called sea and freshwater 

 lice. The- presence of maggots is generally con- 

 sidered as a proof that the fish are unclean ; and 



in most instances justly so. but not always, for it is 



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