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Excerpt from The Habits of the Salmon Perhaps it is unnecessary for me to offer any elaborate excuse for coming forward with another book about salmon. Of all the fish that fall victims to our skill, salmon are the most interesting by reason of their size, strength, and gameness, the difficulty of their capture, and the romantic scenery of the districts in which, during their periodical returns to fresh water, we have to seek them. Nor, in view of its gastronomic excellence, its rapid growth and great fertility, will the economist cease to remind us that the salmon is an important article of food, and of great commercial value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from The Salmon There are at least two respects in which the subject of Salmon is important, and two in which it is interesting. It is important commercially, the salmon fisheries forming ancient and valuable property, a large means of employ ment, and a very considerable supply of food somewhat less important as furnishing an old and keenly - relished sport, the privilege of exercising which has become a sort of property superadded to the value for purely commercial uses. It is interesting as involving some of the strangest facts, the most instructive experiments, and the most perplexing mysteries in natural history; and as having within these few years undergone inves tigation more searching and legislation more vigorous than for centuries before. The subject, too, is especially a British, or British and-lrish one - still more especially a Scottish one. The great majority of countries have by nature been cut off from direct interest and from any kind of power in the matter, and no country has an interest at once so great and so imperilled as our own; for upon few nations has the gift of the king of fish been conferred. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Life-History and Habits of the Salmon, Sea-Trout, Trout, and Other Freshwater Fish Fish and their ways have at all times engaged the attention of the writer, and the outcome of these studies has been the production of this volume. Within its pages he has endeavoured to clear up many points relative to the history of salmon and trout which have until lately remained a mystery. So many unsatisfactory theories have been advanced, that he determined to take full advantage of his position as Manager of the Tay Salmon Fisheries Co., Ltd., and do all in his power to investigate and further our knowledge regarding this most interesting branch of Natural History. With this end in view, the marking of smolts on their way to the sea, and their recapture afterwards, have been extensively carried on, and their weight, date of capture, and the particular run to which they belonged, have been carefully recorded. Hitherto it was believed that salmon smolts returned as grilse the same year as they went down to the sea, but a study of the smolt does not bear this out. Again, the writer shows that the large Spring salmon, the small Spring salmon, and also the "Summer Run," are on their first return from the sea, and not from the kelt grilse as many supposed. Evidence is also given that the so-called salmon bull-trout is not a trout, but a true salmon which has spawned, and consequently has become altered in appearance and white in the flesh. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
