[fraser] 



PACIFIC SALMON 



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some in the third year as well as in the fifth year. This difference 

 may only be a seeming one as if there were 3-year fish in the stream 

 type they would likely be too small to be caught in the nets. 



Of the fish that have been called "grilse," as above indicated, no 

 specimens were obtained. Here, as in the case of the spring salmon, 

 it would avoid confusion if the term were not used. 



In the relative number of males and females in the different years 

 Rivers inlet is very distinct from the Fraser river. In the Fraser 

 river fish they were approximately equal in all years where the num- 

 bers were large enough for comparison, and the total number of each 

 was similar, but in the Rivers inlet fish the males predominated in the 

 4-year fish and the females in the 5-year fish, and as the 5-year fish 

 were much in the majority the total number of females was noticeably 

 greater than that of the males. 



Rivers Inlet 



Fraser River 



