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rises to the fly, more or less, all the summer through. 

 It is also true that the Maine fish grows to a much 

 larger size than the ouananiche of Canada ; but it is 

 a ouananiche all the same. " The i landlocked salmon ' 

 of the Game Law," says the 1896 Report of the New 

 York Fish and Game Commission, " is no other than 

 the sea-salmon with a fresh-water habitat." 



And Mr. A. JS". Cheney, the present State Fish Cult- 

 urist of New York, wrote some time ago in Forest and 

 Stream : 



"Whether they are called landlocked salmon in the United 

 States, or ouananiche in Canada, they are not a variety, but the 

 species itself. They are not landlocked salmon, for wherever 

 found they can go to sea if they have the desire, as the way is 

 open, and in all probability they were called ouananiche before 

 they were called landlocked salmon. We really need but one 

 common name for a single species of fish, as a rule ; but to distin- 

 guish the salmon that go to sea from those that remain in fresh 

 water it is necessary to have two, and which is the best for the 

 fresh-water fish, ouananiche or landlocked salmon ? And which 

 holds the age ? I voted for ouananiche, no matter where the fish 

 is found, and so used the word. "Trout" sufficiently describes 

 fontinalis whether the fish is two ounces in weight in Pike County, 

 Pennsylvania, eight pounds in weight in the Batiscan, in Canada, 

 or twelve pounds in weight in Mooselucmaguntic Lake, in Maine. 

 The big-mouth black bass is not to be envied because it is an 

 Oswego bass in New York, a chub in Virginia, and a trout in 

 Florida. 



" If there is danger of international complications arising over this 

 name we could say the ouananiche of Canada and the ouananiche 

 of the United States, to separate one from the other. When the 

 country is in a depressed state and economy is in order, it is a good 

 time to reduce the number of common names of some of our fishes 

 that lead only to confusion and bad language on the part of some 

 of our fishermen, as for instance when they find that a pike-perch 

 may be, according to the waters in which it resides, a dory or a 



