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DURlNG the last ten years some exceedingly interesting researches have been effected by German, Finnish, Swedish, and Norwegian ichthyologists as to the migration of salmon on their respective coasts. Thus, by careful researches, some Swedish and Finnish savants have proved that the salmon, which in the summer are caught in the rivers of the upper gulf of the Baltic, have at another season, most probably in the winter, paid a visit to the shores and rivers of Northern Germany. This has been conclusively proved by salmon caught in the Swedish and Finnish rivers having German-made hooks in their gills and stomach. From this it is therefore apparent that, in the Baltic, salmon are in the habit of quitting the rivers of Northern Sweden and Finland in the autumn in order to visit the shores of Northern Germany during the winter, and return to their haunts in the spring. That the fish should be capable of performing the enormous journey across the Baltic—from the upper gulf to the Pomeranian coast—and back every year may indeed seem incredible, but that it is impossible is fully disproved by the experiments with salmon and trout effected by the late Mr. Frank Buckland on the coasts of Scotland and England in the same direction.
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The Migration of Salmon . Nature 30, 361–362 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030361c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/030361c0