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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- 



FiG. 195. — Ayu, or Japanese Samlet, Plecoglossas 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 iPlecoglossns 

 altivelis), a sort of dwarf salmon which runs in similar fashion 

 in the rivers of Japan and Formosa. The ayu is about as large 



Fig. 196. — Whitefisli, Coregonvi rhipHformia Mitchill. Eeorse, Midi. 



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 



