Photo by Shirley C. Hulse 
AN UNUSUALLY FINB MALE CHINOOK SALMON : WEIGHT, PERHAPS 6o POUNDS. THIS 
IS THE MOST MAGNIFICENT OF ALL THE SALMONS 
sissippi and its tributaries, such homely 
species as the catfishes and buffalo-fishes 
attain their greatest development, and 
originally contributed more than any 
others to the income of the fishermen and 
the food supply of a score of States ; but 
these natives have now been supplanted 
by an Asiatic alien which, having re- 
ceived a course of cultivation in Ger- 
many, came to our shores because of 
inducements held out by our government, 
and now, under the inaccurate name of 
German carp, has become the most im- 
portant inhabitant of our interior waters. 
Finally, practically every person on the 
Pacific seaboard will, without hesitation 
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