32 SPORT IN VANCOUVER 



Later on, when making a trip on the Cannery 

 steamer which collects fish daily from various 

 stations up and down the coast, the manager 

 of the factory, who was on board, pointed out 

 to me amongst the hundreds of fish we collected, 

 the difference between the blue back and the 

 real cohoe. 



The former runs much earlier than the 

 latter, and is seldom over 6 lb. in weight ; the 

 latter were, he stated, just beginning to run- 

 then the middle of August and the largest on 

 board weighed 14 lb. 



It was not, however, till my return from 

 Vancouver that I came across the volume on 

 Salmon and Trout of the American Sports- 

 man's Library, edited by Caspar Whitman, and 

 there found recorded all that is known about 

 the salmon and trout of the Pacific Coast. 



To begin with, the Pacific salmon does not 

 belong to the genus " Salmo," but to the genus 

 " Oncorhynchus," which, according to Messrs. 

 C. H. Townsend and H. W. Smith, the authors 

 of the most interesting chapters on the Pacific 

 salmon in the above-mentioned book, is peculiar 

 to the Pacific Coast. 



One peculiarity of the Pacific salmon seems 

 to be that they invariably die after spawning, 

 and never return to the sea. 



In the case of the humpback, I saw this for 



