Although not usually an anadromous species, the rainbow trout frequently moves about in the rivers, and it often enters the sea, large sea-run specimens being often taken for steelheads.
The sexual peculiarities are in general less marked than in Oncorhynchus; they are also greater in the anadromous species than in those which inhabit fresh waters.
The salmon of the Atlantic is, as already stated, an anadromous fish, spending most of its life in the sea, and entering the streams in the fall for the purpose of reproduction.
The species of Oncorhynchus have long been known as anadromous salmon, confined to the North Pacific.
Still others, known as anadromous fishes, feed and mature in the sea, but ascend the rivers as the impulse of reproduction grows strong.
The most remarkable case of theanadromous instinct is found in the king salmon or quinnat (Oncorhynchus tschawytscha) of the Pacific Coast.
They are anadromous fishes of which little more can be said than that a specimen might take a bottom bait once in a way.
Fish were salted when there was a surplus and in certain seasons, especially the spawning time of the anadromous river-herring, they were available in phenomenal quantities.
Although they have access to the salt water, and go there for food--and hence are fat and delicious in flavor--they are not anadromous brook trout.
The trout in question come up the St. Lawrence from the ocean in large numbers, and file off, probably in accordance with the instinct of anadromous fishes, to the streams in which they were severally hatched.
Like all anadromous fishes its "ways are dark and past finding out.
Migratory Fish The migratory fishes fall into two groups, the anadromous and the catadtomous.
The anadromous fishes pass most of their lives in the sea, run up stream only for the purpose of spawning, and constitute the most valuable of our river fishes.
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