shrimps and young crabs, some of them 
have been known to grow heavier than 
eighty pounds. That’s as much as a big 
boy. Most of those caught, however, 
weigh only about ten pounds. 
There was a time when the shore 
waters of the Atlantic were the home of 
great numbers of salmon. The writings 
of the people of Europe tell us how much 
these fine fish were valued there for 
hundreds of years. And when the first 
settlers came to America, they found 
that salmon was the chief food of the 
Indians of the coast. Soon it was one of 
the chief foods of the settlers, too. 
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