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salmon are both appropriate, according to the season. The Red salmon 

 spawns only in streams which flow into lakes. A stream without a lake 

 never has Red salmon. Hence there are none in the Sacramento or 

 Rogue rivers. In the lake-fed Fraser River, in the Karluk River, 

 and in the rivers about Bristol Bay, Red salmon run in numbers 

 literally fabulous. There are many in the Columbia. They run with 

 the Chinook salmon, but sometimes when a stream forks each salmon 

 goes its way, the Chinook to the snow-fed branches, the Red salmon to 

 the head of the lakes. The distance from the sea is immaterial. At 

 Boca de Quadra, in Alaska, the river from the lake to the sea is not 

 ten rods long, yet it is crowded with Red salmon. In the Yukon, the 

 Red salmon range up the river to Lake Labarge, the first lake, about 

 eighteen hundred miles. 



CHINOOK, QUINNAT, OR KIN'. SALMON ha Walbaum. 



The Silver salmon (Oncorhynchus milktschitch) is of about the same 

 size as the Red salmon, and of much the same grade as food. It is 

 faintly spotted, the top of the dorsal fin is blackish. Its scales are less 

 fine than in the Red salmon and more lustrous, and it does not turn 

 red in the summer. 



This species abounds all along the shore, especially northward. It 

 runs but a short distance to spawn — rarely over a mile. For this 

 reason it can not easily be taken in large numbers. Its flesh is much 

 paler than in the King salmon, or the Red salmon, hence, notwithstand- 

 ing its excellence, it brings a lower price when canned. It is then sold 

 as Coho, or as medium Red. 



The Dog salmon or Calico salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) has much 

 the same habits, and it is common along shore from San Francisco 

 northward. It is the principal salmon of Japan, being salted in great 

 numbers and sold under the name of Sake. Its flesh is very pale and 

 mushy, almost worthless when canned, but better when salted. Many 



