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CHAPTER XIII. 



THE SALMONS. 



As all that has been said of the breeding of brook 

 trout is applicable to the salmon, there is little to be 

 added under this head. The eggs are larger than those 

 of trout and do not diflfer much in size, while in color 

 they are of a beautiful "salmon" shade. 



The United States has a good salmon breeding estab- 

 lishment at East Orland, Maine, where parent fish are 

 obtained from the Penobscot; but in Canada and New 

 Brunswick there are larger ones, which have done grand 

 work, despite the opposition of some ignorant fisher- 

 men, who imagine that the hatcheries injure them in 

 some way. In Norway, Swedeji, Germany and other 

 countries the salmon is artificially cultivated on a scale 

 more or less large, but our neighbors to the north lead 

 the work in this industry. 



THE PACIFIC SALMONS. 



Not more than three of the Pacific salmons are of 

 much value. The best is the "king," or quinnat sal- 

 mon, Oncorhynchus chouicha, and then comes the little 

 "blueback" and the "steel-head." 



The quinnat salmon was introduced into our east- 

 ern waters for a number of years by the million, and 

 distributed in the rivers from Maine to Texas, and not 

 one adult was ever caught on the Atlantic coast. In 

 this case the failure was not due to light stocking, but 



