Excerpt from The Salmon Fisheries The great interest which has more or less for the last six centuries, or even longer, centred round the Salmon Fishery question is due to two causes: - first, to the esteem in which the flesh of the salmon has always been held; and, second, to the necessity for protecting the fisheries against the continually increasing array of interests inimical to them with which they have become surrounded, and which have from time to time threatened their existence. Distributed, roughly speaking, over the greater part of the Northern Hemisphere lying rth of 35, the salmon of different countries, and even of different rivers, present marked peculiarities, according to the temperature of the water, the nature of their food, and other local circumstances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy 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.