IV. 



THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE 

 SALMON. 



IHAT has not been written about the 

 salmon, its habits, its history, natural 

 and otherwise, how to catch him, and 

 how to eat him ! And yet even now, after 

 all the experiments, after all the trouble of breeding 

 and observing the fish, from their first expulsion 

 from the ova to the full-grown salmon, their lives 

 are still in a great measure a mystery. Scientific as 

 well as practical observers differ in so many re- 

 spects, that it may not be uninteresting to give a 

 resicme of the various theories and opinions which 

 have been advanced about this most interesting 

 species of the genus Salino. 



The Tweed Fishery Commissioners appointed a 

 small committee of their number to make inquiries 

 regarding the natural history of the Salmonoids 



