I'hoto by George Shiras, 3rd 



A FAIR-SIZED BULL AT EDGE OP EICK 



Note the long, remarkable "bell," which dangled for 18 inches from its neck and looked 

 exactly like a broken halter end, swinging freely as the animal walked 



canned. This should excite no prejudice 

 elsewhere, since all the fish for commer- 

 cial purposes are taken before or shortly 

 after entering the fresh-water rivers, 

 when they are in fine condition. 



Comment has been made upon the 

 mutilated bodies of the stranded fish, and 

 many seem to think that this was entirely 

 due to battling upstream amid jagged 

 rocks, whirlpools, and rapids. The writer 

 saw no indication of this, but did find 

 there existed a strange and fierce enmity 

 between the fish, under conditions now 

 described, which surpassed any contest 



between kindred species that he had ever 

 witnessed. 



This impulse to seek the uppermost 

 waters of a particular stream, be it a 

 mile or a thousand miles in length, ap- 

 parently continues after the spawning 

 period, and so each salmon, weakened 

 from spawning and the refusal or in- 

 ability to eat on leaving salt water, still 

 instinctively struggles against the swift 

 ■\^'aters, gradually drifting back, tail first, 

 until a pool behind a log-jamb, the en- 

 trance to a slough, or the slower waters 

 of a side channel aftbrd a temporary 



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