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the genuine salmo salar, " but a huge trout, exactly resembling it 

 in appearance." Even if this were the case, why should not these 

 large trout take a bait as freely here as in other parts of Sweden? 

 But it is not the case ; because, although I believe that far up in 

 most of these Bothnian rivers they have both species of large lake 

 trout peculiar to the Wenern, I also know, from my own observa- 

 tion, that both in the Tornea and Lulea rivers, the true sea-salmon, 

 as well as the salmon-trout, are taken every year in very great 

 quantities when they come up to spawn, so we must seek for some 

 other cause for the solution of a mystery which, I must confess, has 

 puzzled me more than anything else in the ichthyology of Scandi- 

 navia. When in Lulea Lapland, I made many inquiries into the 

 habits of the salmon in the great Lulea river, and doubtless they 

 are the same in the other rivers along the coast, as well on the 

 Swedish as on the Finnish sides. Both the salmon and the salmon- 

 trout begin to ascend the large Lulea river soon after the middle of 

 June, and the spawning season in this river is about the middle of 

 October. They ascend the river as far as Lockmock, perhaps 120 

 English miles from Lulea, and between Lockmock and the sea there 

 are eight falls, but none prettier or more fitting for the habits of 

 the salmon than the Leclel fall close to Lockmock, which, however, 

 apparently they cannot ascend, for the true sea-salmon never comes 

 up as far as Quickiock, above eighty miles farther up, although I 

 believe there is water communication so far, but broken probably 

 with lakes and tracks. I never myself wetted my line here, but I 

 was told at Lockmock that salmon are taken by a rod and line 

 under this fall during the summer. As far as I could learn, the 

 salmon fishing in this magnificent river is much spoilt by the large 

 salmon traps set across the stream at Ederforss, a little distance from 

 Lulea, and the salmon taken here belong to the town of Lulea. At 

 six of the other salmon traps on this river, the yearly catch of 

 salmon, I was told, would average as follows : At Sands, 40 tunna, 

 or about 160 bushels ; Luarts, 50 tunna j Gaddock, 70; Balinge, 

 50 3 Lunnerley, 30; Annan, 40. The value of the salmon fishing 

 in the Lower Tornea river is averaged at about sjoo/., reckoning 



