Salmon and Salmon Fisheries (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Salmon and Salmon FisheriesWith regard to the food of the salmon, I have never heard of anything having been found in their stomachs, except what they must have got when in the sea. Small haddocks, cod, and herrings have been found, as well as lugworms, sand-eels and remains of jelly-fish. The sea fishermen believe that when in salt water they feed largely on Mather, or Herring Sile, minute crustaceans, which are often in such quantities as to colour the water, ' and which generally betoken to the fishermen the proximity of herrings. Even when salmon are taken in parts of the river, at a distance of above twenty miles from the sea, as at my own residence on Tweedside, they have been found with small herrings in their stomach, as the only appear ance of food. When they come into the river to spawn, my belief is that they get no food, except what they bring with them, and that they are then supported entirely by the oil which is in their ¿esh. This inference is corroborated by the experiments of the late Sir Robert Christison, who analysed the ¿esh of a clean salmon caught when entering the River Tay from the sea, and also another salmon when descending the Tay to the sea, after having been in the river for about six months. The amount of fatty matter was in the latter only about one-sixteenth of what existed in the former.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.