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myself later on in the season, when every stream 

 was literally a mass of moving fish all pushing 

 up to the head- waters, and there dying in vast 

 numbers. 



The tyee salmon, " Oncorhynchus tschawyt- 

 scha," has many names. It is known to the 

 Indians as " Chinook," " tyee " and " quinnat," 

 to others as the Columbia salmon, the Sacra- 

 mento and King salmon. 



It appears to range from Monterey Bay, 

 California, as far north as Alaska. 



Messrs. Townsend and Smith state that in 

 the Yukon and Norton Sounds it attains a 

 weight of 110 lb., and in the Columbia 80 lb. 



The largest I saw caught at Campbell River 

 weighed close on 70 tfe. The largest fish brought 

 to the hotel by any of us was about 60 tb. 



The blue back salmon, " Oncorhynchus 

 Nerka," is stated by the same authorities to run 

 up to 15 tb., and the average to be under 5 lb. 



This would appear from its description to 

 correspond with the fish pointed out to me by 

 the Cannery manager as blue back — though 

 I cannot quite reconcile its other names : red 

 fish, red salmon, Eraser River salmon and 

 Sockeye — for the fishermen at Campbell River 

 spoke of the Sockeye as quite a different fish, 

 running at a different season of the year. 



No doubt, however, the scientists are right. 



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