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lO6 Boy Scouts Esox lucius Common pike pickerel Oncorhynlius tstiawyt?cha Chinook salmon Coregonus clupdformis Common whitefish Salvelinus fontinaIls Brook trout: speckled trout Ictalurus punctatus The speckled catfish endeavor to secure for the fishes fair consider- ation and treatment. Classes of Fish Fishes may berough- ly classified as (i) fresh water, (2) migratory between fresh and salt water, and (3) marine. Among the families of American fresh-water fishes that are con- spicuous on account of their size, abundance, or econom/c impor- tance, or all of these, there may be men- tioned the sturgeons, the catfishes, the suck- ers, the minnows or carps, the pikes, the killifishes, the trouts, salmons, a?d white- fishes, the perches, and the basses, and sun fishes. bligratory Fish The migratory fishes fall into two groups, the anadromous and the catadromous. The anadromous fishes pass most of their lives in the sea, run up stream only for the purpose of spawning, and con- stitute the most valu- able of our river fishes. In this group are the shads and the alewives or river herrings, the white ve?h?.tl?ped ba?t%?rb?l? '?[?11,t%ome