82 AMERICAN GAME FISHES. 



Salmon-breeding establishment, on Grand Lake Stream, says 

 that it occurs only in four limited districts, all in Maine the 

 systems of the Presumpscot, the Sebec, the Union, which is a 

 tributary of the Penobscot, and the St. Croix Rivers. Lake 

 Sebago in the Presumpscot system furnishes the largest speci- 

 mens and has given the name by which this fish is known 

 to scientists, Salmo Salar, variety Sebago. The Schoodic 

 River, which is the west branch of the St. Croix, and into 

 which Grand Lake discharges, is the origin of another and 

 more popular name. Since the founding of the breeding 

 establishment in 1875, the Schoodic Salmon have been widely 

 distributed in the United States, with varying success. They 

 have also been transported to Scotland and Germany, where 

 they have done well. 



The Winanishe, Wananishe, or Ouinaniche, of the Upper 

 Saguenay and the Lake St. John river system, has also been 

 well known since the settlement of that region of the Province 

 of Quebec, about 1850, and was familiar to the Indians and 

 Hudson Bay Company's voyageurs long before then. The 

 etymology of the name is unsettled, but is probably derived 

 from the Cree root "wan," to lose or mistake, applied either 

 to the fish having lost itself or being taken for a Salmon. 

 Though Charles Hallock fished the Upper Saguenay, or 

 Grande Decharge, as it is locally named, and described the 

 Wananishe fifteen years ago, only a few anglers seem to have 

 known either the fish or its habitat until lately. Their re- 

 discovery by fishing tourists and sporting journals and the 

 marvelous accounts given in railway and hotel advertise- 

 ments are amusing to those who have made for many years 

 a special study of the fish and region, but it is to be feared 

 that they mark the beginning of the end of a peculiarly inter- 

 esting game fish. 



The Wananishe and the Land-locked Salmon of Maine are 

 identical, the only observable difference being a slight one in 

 coloration. This is always an unimportant distinction, and 



