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and full, indicating that the sources of food supply 

 are most plentiful. As the variovis fishes which they 

 prey upon, the anchovies and sardines, are not deep- 

 water fish, or the squid, it is pretty clear that the 

 salmon do not go very many miles from the shore, 

 probably not more than a hundred, or that they 

 frequent a depth greater than fifty or sixty fathoms. 

 There are instances where they have been caught at 

 sea at a depth of from twenty to thirty fathoms by 

 baited hooks, at different places up and down the 

 middle and northern coast of California, but not at 

 a greater depth than mentioned. 



It is not likely that the king salmon, or chinook, 

 those of the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers, 

 ever go more than a hundred and fifty miles from 

 the bay of San Francisco, and they are never seen more 

 than a hundred and twenty miles south of the bay. 

 Although identical with the chinook of the Columbia 

 River, seven hundred miles north, they are distinctive 

 in weight, those of the Columbia River averaging 

 four pounds heavier in weight at the canning works 

 over those of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. 



How the salmon find their way to the several par- 

 ticular streams where they were hatched out, and 

 which they occupied in their juvenile days, I will 

 explain in some later references to fishes and their 

 ability to find their way through the sea, and this 

 through the confusion of the waters of the bays, 

 too extended to consider at this moment. 



The salmon in the sea appears to be quite fearless 

 and indifferent about boats and fishermen, probably 

 never having seen any before, and if considered at all, 

 would probably suppose them to be some sort of fish. 



