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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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f Connecticut would eatsalmon no oftener than twice a week. Plenty of them in thiscountry, wrote Fuller, though not in such abundance as inScotland where servants (they say) indent with their masters notto be fed therewith above twice a week. There can be nodoubt that one hundred years ago salmon fishing was an im-portant food resource in southern New England. Many Connec-ticut people remember hearing their grandfathers say that whenthey went to the river to buy shad the fishermen used to sti-pulate that they should also buy a specified number of salmon.But at the beginning of this century they began rapidly to dimin-ish. Mitchill stated, in 1814, that in former days the supply tothe New York market usually came from the Connecticut, but oflate years from the Kennebec, covered with ice. Rev. DavidDudley Field, writing in 1819, states that salmon had scarcelybeen seen in the Connecticut for 15 or 20 years. The circum-stances of their extermination in the Connecticut are well known, 164
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Common Atlantic Salmon and the same story, with names and dates changed, servesequally well for other rivers. in 1798 a corporation, known as the Upper Locks andCanal Company, built a dam 16 feet high at Millers River, 100miles from the mouth of the Connecticut. For 2 or 3 yearsfish were seen in great abundance below the dam, and for per-haps 10 years they continued to appear, vainly striving to reachtheir spawning grounds; but soon the work of extermination wascomplete. When, in 1872, a solitary salmon made its appearance,the Saybrook fishermen did not know what it was. At least half of the salmons life is spent in the ocean. Heis ever bred in fresh rivers, said Isaac Walton, and never growsbig but in the sea. He has, like some persons of honourand riches which have both their winter and summer houses,this fresh water for summer and the salt water for winter tospend his life in. Most of his tribe, however, are peculiarlyfresh-water fishes, though several share his sea-dwelling habits

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