Photo by George Shiras, 3rd 
A FAIR-SIZED BULL AT EDGE OF EICK 
Note the long, remarkable "bell," which dangled for 18 inches from its neck and looked 
exactly like a broken halter end, swinging freely as the animal walked 
canned. This should excite no prejudice 
elsewhere, since all the fish for commer- 
cial purposes are taken before or shortly 
after entering the fresh-water rivers, 
when they are in fine condition. 
Comment has been made upon the 
mutilated bodies of the stranded fish, and 
many seem to think that this was entirely 
due to battling upstream amid jagged 
rocks, whirlpools, and rapids. The writer 
saw no indication of this, but did find 
there existed a strange and fierce enmity 
between the fish, under conditions now 
described, which surpassed any contest 
between kindred species that he had ever 
witnessed. 
This impulse to seek the uppermost 
waters of a particular stream, be it a 
mile or a thousand miles in length, ap- 
parently continues after the spawning 
period, and so each salmon, weakened 
from spawning and the refusal or in- 
ability to eat on leaving salt water, still 
instinctively struggles against the swift 
waters, gradually drifting back, tail first, 
until a pool behind a log- jamb, the en- 
trance to a slough, or the slower waters 
of a side channel afiford a temporary 
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