Show salmons long journey two chinook salmon captured in coos day bay oregon were discovered to be peculiarly marked A circle duclos ing chinese or japanese characters was branded on the law jaw bone this circle seemed to have been burned into the bone with a iron it Is thought that the fish atter after having been branded in asia left their native rivers and encountered the japan stream which they followed until they reached reached the american shores this theory it true upsets the one now held by piscatorial lal experts which Is that the salmon always returns to the stream where it was vas spawned nea the fish commissioner will make a thorough investigation to discover if 11 possible whether these thesa fish ibera really branded in III asia |