CHARTER V 

 SALMON-FISHING AS AN INDUSTRY 



The salmon Annual migration Jumping Spawning Fry, smolt, 

 and grilse The Columbian grounds Trap-nets Seines Hauling 

 in by horse-power The fish-wheel Salmon-fishing among the 

 Indians Canadian moored gill-netsScandinavian fishery The 

 Sogne and Hardanger fjords Natural Salmon-traps Seines and 

 net-weirsLapps and Finns as fishers The sea-swallow Salmon- 

 netting at home Close-time Stake-nets and slow-nets. 



IN this chapter, be it understood, we are approaching 

 the salmon from a strictly business point of view ; 

 the salmon as he is caught for sale and export, for 

 the benefit of persons who are content to purchase six- 

 pennyworth of him at a time and in a tin, or of those 

 who buy him fresh or dried at their fishmonger's. 



The supple, elegant form of the salmon is as familiar 

 to every one as is the delicate pink of its flesh. No fish 

 has been so written about, legislated about, experimented 

 on, undigested, and misunderstood ; few are more profit- 

 able from the fisher's, tradesman's, and doctor's point of 

 view. The fishery has been known at least as far back 

 as early in the Christian era, and the trade in dried 

 salmon is, at any rate in Scotland and Northumbria, a 

 very ancient one. At the time of Edward IFs conflict 

 with Bruce we find orders being given by the English 



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