In the case of the quinnat and the blueback, their 'instinct' seems to lead them to ascend these fresh waters, and in a majority of cases these waters will be those in which the fishes in question were originally spawned.
I doubt much if the quinnat could tackle an ordinary artificial salmon ladder, though there are undoubtedly numbers of streams in British Columbia which could be rendered navigable to Salmo salar by such means.
It can hardly be a fact that the quinnat never returns to the sea, for if that were invariably the case, how could the large fish of 80lb.
In spite of adverse prophecies, possibly the cannery and fish traps may never be built, for the quinnat is mostly useful to the angler.
There is enough evidence from various sources to show that the salmon take the fly in tidal waters, but it cannot be said that there is much to show that they do so very freely, especially in the case of the large quinnat salmon.
It is not likely that either the quinnat or the red salmon can be introduced into these rivers, as they have no snow-fed streams, and few of them pass through lakes which are not shut off by waterfalls.
The flesh in this species is of excellent flavor, but pale in color, and hence less valued than that of the quinnat and the red salmon.
As a food-fish the Atlantic salmon is very similar to the quinnat salmon, neither better nor worse, so far as I can see, when equally fresh.
By the last of August only straggling blue-backs can be found in the lower course of any stream; but both in the Columbia and in the Sacramento the quinnat runs in considerable numbers at least till October.
In the case of the quinnat and the blue-back their 'instinct' seems to lead them to ascend these fresh waters, and in a majority of cases these waters will be those in which the fishes in question were originally spawned.
The quinnat runs practically only in the streams of large size, fed with melting snows; the red salmon only in streams which pass through lakes.
Only the quinnat and the dog-salmon have been noticed south of San Francisco.
The Atlantic salmon does not ascend rivers to any such distances as those traversed by the quinnat and the blue-back.
Of this amount the red salmon constitutes somewhat more than half, the quinnat about four-fifths of the rest.
The aggregate value of the quinnat is considerably less, but either species far exceed in value all other fishes of the Pacific taken together.
As the season advances, smaller and younger salmon of these species (quinnat and blue-back) enter the rivers to spawn, and in the fall these young specimens are very numerous.
The most remarkable case of the anadromous instinct is found in the king salmon or quinnat (Oncorhynchus tschawytscha) of the Pacific Coast.
The quinnathas an average weight of twenty-two pounds, but sometimes reaches one hundred pounds.
The species with which trials have thus far been made are the quinnat or chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tschawytscha) and the steelhead trout (Salmo gairdneri).
The quinnatsalmon ranges along practically the entire Pacific Coast of North America north of Mexico, entering all suitable streams.
Planting of quinnatsalmon and steelhead trout in Maine streams.
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