CHAPTEE XII 

 THE ATLANTIC SALMON 



Salmon-ctjltxteb is carried on almost entirely 

 by the United States government, and on the 

 Atlantic is maintained for sentimental reasons 

 rather than for any great practical results. 

 Nearly aU the large ^streams in New England 

 were once abundantly supplied with salmon, 

 but now only the Kennebec and the Penobscot 

 in Maine contain it in any numbers. The 

 United States Bureau of Fisheries supports a 

 hatchery in that state, but the cost of operat- 

 ing it is nearly or quite equal to the value of 

 the catch of fish. 



Numerous stations are maintained by the 

 government on the Columbia Eiver and in 

 Alaska for the propagation of the various 

 species of the Pacific salmon, and with great 

 success. Efforts have been made from time to 

 time to transplant the quinnat salmon to the 



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