CHAPTER I 



Popular Fresh- Water Game Fish 

 SALMON 



First, among game fishes, the salmon is su- 

 preme, not only in its gallant resistance and fight- 

 ing qualities, but, perhaps, in its value to the hu- 

 man race as a highly prized and nutritious food. 

 Its beautiful and shapely form, 

 Family lm n especially when first taken from the 

 water (if a newly run fish), gives its 

 captor the greatest pleasure. With pardonable 

 pride, as he beholds its shiny, silvery sides, he 

 exclaims, every time he lands one, " What a noble 

 and brave antagonist!" 



The two most important species are the quin- 

 nat salmon of the Pacific, and the Atlantic salmon 

 the latter inhabiting the North Atlantic, and as- 

 cending many of the rivers for the purpose of re- 

 production. The most southern river in which 

 specimens have been obtained, is the Poto- 

 Salmor? mac - ^ occurs in small numbers in the 

 Delaware and in the Hudson, but in these 

 three rivers its presence is the result of arti- 

 ficial introduction. Its occurrence in Lake Cham- 

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