"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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We got us genuine mystery here!

Wolfgang
for god's sake, PLEASE!, is there a reference librarian in the house?
Maybe its not such a mystery. Upon reflection it occurred to me that even
by 1911, the fact that salmon returned to their natal stream to spawn was
likely unknown. It is highly unlikely that tagging studies had been
conducted by then.and they certainly didn't have radio telemetry on salmon
then. It is known that early salmon hatcheries, even as much as several
decades later than that, didn't appreciate the importance of using brood
stock from the drainage where the fry were to be stocked.
However, that reasoning doesn't excuse another error in the piece -
attributing the scooping out of the Redd to the male, that activity is
strictly the province of the female.

Bob Weinberger