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Show SALMON NEEDS SALT WATER Confined in Lake, with No Approich to the Sen, the Fish RnpHly Becomo Dwarfed. Thp name salmon U given In England Eng-land and all eastern states to a large, trout-like fish which lives In the sea, chiefly about tho mouths of rivers, nnd which enters the streams to spawn, running for a considerable distance up the stream nnd returning to the sea after tho act of spawning Is accomplished, ac-complished, says a writer In the Pacific, Pa-cific, Monthly. The old males become somewhat distorted, especially through tho lengthening of tho Jaws, but the changes with age and season are not much greater than In any large trout. Tho true salmon, like the true trout, Is black spotted. It Is called in science sci-ence Salmo salav, and along with thi true trout it belongs to the genus Salmo. There Is only one species of Atlantic salmon; It is found on both sides of the ocean, and on both sides It becomes tnmetlmes land-locked and dwarfish when It Is shut up In n lake and when It cannot or docs not go to the sen. |