Fish Cultttrists Association. 



but a short time ; and during that short time, in many instances, 

 is the very period when this fish is migrating from the sea to 

 pass up the river for the purpose of depositing its eggs. He 

 says they are prized more than other trout on account of their 

 fine qualities. That is so ; salmon fishermen prefer to take them 

 for their food, but it is to be accounted for in this way, that they 

 come directly from the sea from their feeding-grounds, and they 

 are fat and in fine condition ; and when they get up to where the 

 salmon fisheries are they are in the best possible condition they 

 could be. After three or four weeks they are not so delicate. 

 These fish pass by and disappear and are not heard from for 

 some time. It is because they pass by the river where these 

 salmon fisheries are and pass to the upper branches where the 

 salmon fishermen do not go. They go there and deposit their 

 eggs and then return to the sea and put on fatness again for 

 another migration another year. The color of all these fish in 

 the sea, the salmonoid family, is different from what it is in 

 fresh water. He is a bright, brilliant fish when he comes from 

 the sea, and he gets darker as he goes up the river ; and when 

 the month of November comes around he is a black, dirty, 

 uncouth looking fish. So it is with this specimen ; when that 

 fish came from the sea he was a bright, beautiful fish. As he 

 passed up the stream he began to get discolored and get to be 

 black. Therefore, the opinion that exists among gentlemen who 

 go fishing upon our rivers in Canada in regard to that fish, is 

 not altogether the correct one, from the fact that they do not see 

 him only in a certain season when he is in a prime condition. 

 Now there is a fish upon the wall which was caught in 

 proper season. If that fish were caught in October or Novem- 

 ber, instead of being caught in July, as that was, no person in 

 this room, I think, who had been engaged in fishing all his life- 

 time, but would say it was a distinctly different fish altogether. 



