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Show SALMON NEEDS SALT WATER Confined in Lake, with No Approach to the Sea, the Fish lUpldly Become Dwarfed. The name salmon Is given In England Eng-land and all eastern states to a large, trout-like fish which Uvea In (he sea, chiefly about tho mouths of rivers, and which enters the streams to spawn, running for a considerable dlstanco up the stream and (returning to the sea after the act of spawning la accomplished, ac-complished, says a writer in the Pacific Pa-cific Monthly. The old males become somewhat distorted, especially through tho lengthening of the Jaws, but the changes with age and season are not much greater than In any large trout The true salmon, tike tho truo trout, la black spotted. It is called in science sci-ence Salmo salar, and along with the true trout It belongs to the genus Salmo. Tli ore Is only one species of Atlantlo ealmon; It Is found on both aides of tho ocean, and on both aides It becomes sometimes land-locked and dwarfish when It Is shut up In t lako and when It cannot or does not go to tha s'ea,' |