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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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ately shorter; preoperclewith a distinct lower limb, the angle rounded; scales compara-tively large, rather larger posteriorly, silvery and well imbricatedin the young, becoming embedded in the adult males. Colour, inadult, brownish above, the sides more or less silvery, with numer-ous black spots on head, body and fins, and red spots orpatches on sides in males; the parr with about 11 dusky orbluish crossbars, besides red patches and black spots; the colour,as well as the form of the head and body varying much withage, food and condition; the black spots in the adult oftenX-shaped or XX-shaped. In the lakes of Maine, New Hampshire and New Brunswickand in Lake St. John, the Saguenay and neigbouring waters inQuebec, the salmon is represented by 2 land-locked forms, onein each region, which are here recognized as species. Sebago Salmon Sahno sebago (Girard) The sebago salmon receives this name from Sebago Lake, thelocality from which it was first described. It originally occurred in 168
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The Sebago Salmon 4 river basins in Maine and perhaps in a few lai<es in the BritishProvinces. In Maine the original habitats were Presumpscot River orSebago Lake basin, Union River or Reeds Pond (now known asGreen Lake) basin, Sebec Lake basin and St. Croix River basinwhich includes the Schoodic Lakes from which the fish derivesalso the name of Schoodic salmon; but it is more commonlycalled landlocked salmon. By fish-cultural operations it has become pretty widely dis-tributed, especially in New England and in New York. As a rule it differs from the sea salmon in the smaller size, ratherplumper form, much harder skull-bones, larger scales anddifferent colouration. The Sebago Lake salmon originally attained the largest size,the Green Lake next, followed by the Sebec Lake, those of GrandLake of the Western Schoodic Chain being the smallest. This condition obtains in part to the present day. At least theSebago Salmon are the largest and the Grand Lake salmon thesmallest of the 4 orig

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