THE SALMON AND TROUT OF ALASKA. 23 

 THE SALMON. 



Five species of salmon have been identified as found 

 in Alaska ; these are : 



The Oncorhynchus Choiiicha, 

 The Oncorhynchus Keta, 

 The Oncorhynchus Nerka, 

 The Oncorhynchus Kisutch, 

 The Oncorhynchus Garbosha. 



I ain indebted to Professor Bean for the above list. 

 In it I recognize some familiar Kussian names, and I 

 will supplement the nomenclature. The " Keta," is 

 the big hump-backed salmon of the Yukon, sometimes 

 attaining a weight of sixty pounds ; the Nerka is also 

 called by the Eussians Crassna-rebia, or red-fleshed ; 

 and the distinction is well made, for compared with it, 

 the flesh of the other species seems to fade into pink ; 

 the "Kisutch" or "black throat" is so called on ac- 

 count of the intense blackness of the roof of the mouth 

 and throat ; the flesh is lighter red than the Nerkas, 

 but more so than any other species, and as a table fish 

 it excels all others, bringing twice the price at retail ; 

 the GarlosJia is the small hump-back, and strikingly 

 resembles the " red fish " of Idaho. This is the only 

 salmon that I am sure ascends any of the streams near 

 Sitka, except at the Redoubt, where the Kisutcli and 

 Crassna-rebia are taken in late August and early Sep- 

 tember. The common name for the garbosha is the 



