Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York (1896) (14729434706)

Identifier: annualreportof3189618newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: New York (State). Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)



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d when extracts fromhis report were translated and printed in English, they gave rise to considerable dis-cussion on the subject in this country. Dr. Landmark wrote me as follows in 1894: Concerning the height that salmon can jump under favorable circumstances, there is oneplace in Norway with indisputable evidence that there salmon have sometimes made a perfectlyclear jump of sixteen feet perpendicular height. * * * No doubt a jump of the said heightis quite unusual; but, having myself examined the spot where the occurrence has taken place,and having heard the evidence of persons who have themselves witnessed it, 1 cannot doubtthe fact. Since Landmarks experiments, Dr. Robert T. Morris, of New York city has seensalmon in the act of jumping over falls on rivers in Labrador that were from twelve toeighteen feet high and has photographed the fish, a half dozen of the pictures beingbefore me, in the air as they made the leap and has measured the falls at the pointwhere the jump was made.
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