896 FISHES SALMONIDA. 
bers, and none but mature fishes are taken. The larger ones are less 
numerous, and it is claimed,that the average weight of the Trout is less 
than in former years. 
Like other Salmonoids, the Lake Trout has proved to be well adapted 
to artificial culture. The one drawback with them is the difficulty of 
obtaining the spawn in October, when the rough weather renders a visit 
to the spawning grounds a matter of hardship and danger. 
Herbert says, ‘A coarse, heavy, stiff rod, a long and powerful, oiled 
hempen or flaxen line, on a winch, with a heavy sinker; a cod-hook 
baited with any kind of flesh, fish, or fowl is the most successful, if not 
the most orthodox or scientific, mode of capturing him. His great size 
and immense strength alone give him value as a fish of game; but when 
hooked, he pulls strongly and fights hard, though he is a boring, deep 
fighter, and seldom, if ever, leaps out of the water like the true Salmon 
or Brook Trout.” 
The species or variety reaver as the ‘‘ Sescowet”’ has thus far only been 
seen in Lake Superior. Its habits are thus summed by Mr. Milner: 
‘With the rare exceptions of young specimens found near the shore, 
it is taken entirely with gill-nets in deep water. It is a remarkably fat 
fish, and as a fresh fish, is very inferior for the table. Even boiled, it is 
oily and rank in flavor. As a salt fish packed in brine, it is most excel- 
lent, and is universally admitted to surpass either White-fish or Trout. 
Its range of depth is outside of forty fathoms. How much deeper than 
this it may be found, I cannot tell, as no fishing at greater depth than 
fifty fathoms came under my observation in Lake Superior. The stom- 
achs were found to be filled with a Cottoid. This seemed to be its entire 
article of focd in the vicinity of the Apostles’ Islands. 
‘They spawn earlier in the fall than any other of the Salmonoids in 
the lakes, By the latter part of August, the spawn in some of them is 
ripe and running freely, while in the month of September the females 
are all ripe and depositing spawn. They seemed to have no migratory 
instinct at this season, but were taken while spawning in the same vi- 
cinity, where they had been taken for weeks previously.” 
GENUS 53. SALVELINUS. Richardson. 
Salvelinus (Nillson), RICHARDSON, Fauna Bor.-Amer., iii, 1836. 
Baione, DEKay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 1842. 
Elmbla, Rapp. 
Type, Salmo salvelinus, L. 
Etymology, an old name of the European Charr; German, Salbling. 
