THE SALMON FISHER. 27" 



land-locked variety on smelts. Land-locked salmon 

 spawn in autumn, contemporaneously with the sea 

 salmon. The smelt spawns in early spring, and ova 

 hatch about the time the salmon fry begin to forage 

 for themselves. 



Under the increasing light which we now have,, 

 scientists believe that the natural habitat of the en- 

 tire family of Salmonidss is fresh water, and that it 

 is the sea salmon which has become erratic, and not 

 the land-locked salmon of the inland lakes. Salmo 

 salar has put on sea habits, and so have others of his 

 tribe on both sides of the Atlantic, notably the sea 

 trout. Up to the present time the winninish (wa-wa- 

 nish in the Indian vernacular) of the Saguenay 

 River have been popularly supposed to keep exclu- 

 sively to fresh water, and the salmon of Lake Ontario 

 and its tributaries have been believed not to enter 

 salt water, although both have direct access to it. 

 Reckoning from analogy, it may be logically inferred 

 that the habits of the winninish do not differ mate- 

 rially from those of other salmon having unob- 

 structed access to the sea, only that the peculiar 

 conformation of the Saguenay region and the extreme 



