SALMON. 



Salmo Salar. 



WERE it not that some few native 

 streams, far north as Maine, still harbor 

 this royal denizen of the deep, we would 

 have no occasion to include it among our 

 list of fishes. Alaska, Oregon, and Cal- 

 ifornia are too distant for our purpose ; 

 the icy rivers that flow into the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence lie in other territory and are 

 controlled by foreign mastery. Time was 

 when every large stream leading to the 

 coast, from the Delaware to the Penob- 

 scot and beyond, was stocked with these 

 fish. But they were driven from their 

 homes by steamers and mill-dams, and 

 poisoned in masses by dust from saw-mills 

 and the acrid chemical waste of factories. 



Salmon are eminently a clear and cold 

 water fish. Mud and sewage in their na- 



