THE SALMON.' 



^NTIL within the last fifty years very 

 httle was known of the natural history 

 of the Salmon, the united lore of those 

 most interested in the fisheries amount- 

 ing to little beyond the fact that the fish ascended 

 the rivers to spawn during the spring and summer 

 — spawned — and descended again to the sea within 

 the followino- two or three months. 



Since the period referred to, however, and espe- 

 cially during the last two or three decades, the 

 researches of ichthyologists and the experiments 

 which have been conducted on a large scale by 

 enterprising and scientific men have thrown a 

 flood of light upon the subject, converting doubts 

 into certainties, theories into practice, and gene- 

 rally advancing our knowledge of the subject to a 

 point which has already produced practical results 

 of great importance in the re-stocking of our ex- 



' Salino sa/iir. Salwo, Lat. for a salmon ; sa/nr, (tqm the 

 Latin sa/arins. of salt. 



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