Eureka Reporter | 1906-08-10 | Page 4 | Salmon Needs Salt Water

SALMON NEEDS SALT WATER confined in bake with ito approach to the sea the fieh vapidly become dwarfed the name salmon is given in eng land and all eastern states to a large trout like elsh which lives in the sea chiefly about the mouths of rivers and which enters the streams to spawn running tor a considerable distance up the stream and returning to the tea after the act of spawning Is ac says a writer in the pa cine monthly the old males become somewhat distorted especially through athe lengthening of the jaws but the changes with age and season are not much greater than in any large trout the true salmon like the true trout Is black spotted it Is called in acl ence salar and along with the true trout it belongs to the genus there is only one species 0 salmon it Is found on both eldes of the ocean and on both sides it becomes sometimes land locked and dwarfish when it Is shut up in a lake and when it cannot or does not go to the sea