FISHES. 



Coleraine Salmon Leap on the Bann. — Angling for Salmon. 



The Salmon is a migratory fish, annually quitting its home, the sea, and proceeding some distance up 

 rivers to spawn. This being done, it returns in spring to the sea. In ascending streams, it often sur- 

 mounts falls of fifteen feet. The young are hatched about March, and at once start for the sea, and by 

 June the rivers are cleared of them. The fecundity of this fish is immense, else with the creatures, both 

 aquatic and tcrrestial, who prey alike on fish and spawn, the race would be exterminated. How delicate a 

 food is the Salmon is familiar to all. 



The Salmon, is taken in many different modes. Some of these we will describe. 1st. The stake-nets, 

 introduced about a hundred years ago, were nearly crescent shaped, and being tied to the top of stakes, rose 

 with the flow of the tide, so that they caught the fish only at the ebb. Afterwards, however, they were so 

 improved, as to bo efficient during both ebb and flow. This is the most effectual of all modes of Salmon 

 catching, five hundred of ihe fish having been taken at one haul in this net. 



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Salmon. 



Salmon. 



