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Title: American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 Evermann, Barton Warren, 1853-1932
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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spawning grounds and, as a resultfrom these injuries, those which go long distances from the seadie after once spawning. An examination of many salmon atthe time of arrival on their spawning beds in central Idahoshowed every fish to be entirely without mutilations of any kind,and apparently in excellent condition. Mutilations, however, soonappeared, resulting from abrasions received on the spawningbeds while pushing the gravel about or rubbing against it, andfrom fighting with each other, which is sometimes quite severe. The spawning act extends over several days, the eggs beingdeposited upon beds of fine gravel in clear, cold mountainstreams. Soon after they have done spawning both males andfemales die, each individual spawning only once. This is true ofall, whether spawning remote from salt water or only a fewmiles or yards from the sea. The cause of their dying is notconditioned upon distance from the sea, but is general in itsapplication to all species of Pacific Coast salmon. 152
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SALMON JU.MPIXG A FALLS The Chinook Salmon There is no other species of fish in the world equalling theChinook salmon in commercial value. Of the 5 species of salmonon our west coast it is approached in value only by the blue-back. It reaches an enormous size; examples have been takenin Cook Inlet weighing 100 pounds, and individuals of 40 to 60pounds weight are not infrequent. The average weight of thosetaken in the Columbia River has been stated to be 22 pounds,and for those of the Sacramento River, 16 pounds. The Chinook salmon does not take the hook when in freshwater, though it is occasionally taken on the trolling spoon,particularly in the lower Columbia, and at Williamette Falls andin the Sacramento River. In Monterey Bay the chinook salmonis an important game-fish at certain seasons. It is taken ex-clusively by trolling. The best season is from the middle ofMay to the end of June, though they may be taken as early asFebruary, and rarely, even in January. The anglers usually us

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