[fraser] 



PACIFIC SALMON 



205 



The males have the greater average length both in the Rivers 

 inlet and Comox fish, as shown by the following table: 



Dog Salmon 



The dog salmon or chum has received very scant attention from 

 investigators, and until quite recently very little more from com- 

 mercial men. The little canned goods that were put up were taken 

 when no other salmon could be got, and hence at a time when the 

 dogs were far from being at their best. In this condition they could 

 not be put on the same markets as the other species. Now that there 

 has been a falling off in the catch of other species, more particularly 

 in the Fraser river sockeye, the dog salmon is beginning to receive a 

 little more of its due. 



Prejudices, once they are firmly established, are hard to eradicate, 

 and there is a two-fold prejudice against the dog salmon. The lack of 



