130 Fishes as Food for Man 
This little smelt, about a foot long, ascends the Columbia 
River, Frazer River, and streams of southern Alaska ‘in the 
spring in great numbers for the purpose of spawning. Its flesh 
is white, very delicate, charged with a white and very agree- 
Fic. 80.—Ayu, or Japanese Samlet, Plecoglossus altivelis Schlegel. Tanagawa, 
Tokyo, Japan. 
able oil, readily digested, and with a sort of fragrance peculiar 
to the species. 
Next to this he is inclined to place the ayu (Plecoglossus 
altivelis), a sort of dwarf salmon which runs in similar fashion 
in the rivers of Japan and Formosa. The ayu is about as large 
Fie, 81.—Whitefish, Coregonus clupeiformis Mitchill. Ecorse, Mich. 
as the eulachon and has similar flesh, but with little oil and no 
fragrance. 
Very near the first among sea-fishes must come the pampano 
