The Habits of the Salmon. By Major Traherne. (Chapman and
Hall.)—Anything from the _pen of Major Traherne anent the
salmon is worth reading, and the volume under notice is no excep- tion to the rule. Though the author does not pretend to scientific knowledge of the subject, yet, as an angler of long and varied experience on various rivers, he has had opportunities of studying the habits of salmon such as few other fishermen or scientific naturalists can have enjoyed. The present volume is devoted, not to angling experiences, but to the habits and diseases of the fish. The author is of the opinion that cold water retards the development of (Saprolegnia) fungus on salmon, and that is the reason for fish thus attacked mending on entering the salt water in the spring ; but as the summer advances, and the water gets warmer, the disease breaks out even in the sea, this accounting for so few of the early run fish being thus affected. The amended Fishery Laws seem to have done a good deal, and let us hope we may see the day when the poor man can eat his salmon before the end of the season.
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