Image from page 508 of “American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture” (1888)

Image from page 508 of “American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture” (1888)
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Title: American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896
Subjects: Fishes — North America
Publisher: New York, Standard book company
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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h, or Silver Salmon, Oncorhynclius kisuich, writes Jordan, isalmost everywhere known by the name of Silver Salmon. It has alsoa series of local names. In Kamtchatka it is still known by the nameKisutch, in use in Pennants time, a hundred years ago. The name Bielaya Ryba, or A\hite-fish, is also ascribed to it. On FrazerRiver it is known by the INIusquaw name of Coho; at Seattle, by theNisciually name of Skowitz ; about Cape Flattery by the Makah nameof Hoopid ; on the Columbia it is called Silver Salmon or ^^hiteSalmon, and southward the same names prevail. It reaches a weight oftwenty pounds, the usual range being from seven to ten. The SilverSalmon enters all the rivers from Sacramento to Behring Island and Kamt-chatka. In the fall it is abundant in probably all the rivers. Few ornone, however, are seen in the spring. They are often taken with seinesin Puget Sound at all seasons. Like the other fall-running Salmon, theyseldom ascend the rivers to any great distance. ypsn^fi^^-^^^Sf.

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