84 FISH HARVESTING. 
The trout spawn about October, or perhaps a 
little later, depositing their ova in gravel in the 
lesser streams. 
Satmon Trout.—Salmo spectabilis (Red-spot- 
ted Salmon Trout), Grd. Proc. Acad., Nat. Soc. 
Phild., viii. 218.—Sp. Ch.: Head a trifle more 
than a fourth of the total length; maxillary ex- 
tending to a vertical line drawn posterior to the 
orbit. Colour of the back dark-greenish, inclining 
to grey, a lighter shade of the same colour on 
the sides—beneath silvery-white; thickly marked 
above the lateral line with yellowish spots, in- 
terspersed with others that are bright red. 
In habits and distribution the salmon-trout dif- 
fers in every respect from the preceding. ‘There 
can be no doubt that this fish is anadromous, and 
comes up into the rivers to spawn at particular 
periods of the year, like the salmon, and then 
returns to sea. In October the great run begins. 
Into all the rivers emptying into Puget’s Sound— 
the Dwamish, Nesqually, Puyallup, and several 
others, up the Fraser and its tributaries, into all 
the creeks and inlets about Vancouver Island, 
crowd in shoal after shoal. They vary in size; I 
have seldom seen them exceed three pounds in 
weight 
The advent of these trout is the signal for a 
