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Show SALMON NEEDS SALT WATER Confined in Lake, with No Approach to the Sea, the Fish Rapidly Become Dwarfed. The name salmon Is given In England Eng-land and all eastern states to a large, trout-llko fish which lives In tho sea, chiefly about tho mouths of rivers, and which enters the streams to spawn, running for a considerable distance up tho stream and returning to the sea after the act of spawning is accomplished, ac-complished, says a writer In the Pacific Pa-cific Monthly. The old inalos become somewhat dlstortod, especially through tho lengthening of tho jaws, but the granges with ago and season aro nol nfuch' greater than Th any large trout The truo salmon, llko the, true trout. Is black, spotted. It Js. called In bcI-enco bcI-enco Snlmo'slSr, and along "with Urn truo trout It belongs to tho genus Salmo. Thore "is only ono Bpcciba of Atlantic salmon; It Is found on both Bides of tho ocean, and on both sides It becomes sometimes land-locked and dwarfish when it Is shut up In n lako and when It cannot or docs not go to tho sen. |