124 THE LIFE OF THE SALMON 



species Salmo salar I regard in general terms as a 

 sea fish which freely enters fresh water after it has 

 received the nourishment and stimulus the sea 

 alone affords, which frequently, owing to the highly 

 charged state of its nutrition, spends many months 

 in fresh water, and which spawns before again re- 

 turning to the sea. 



