Salmon.

Rick Mc Callister rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu
Thu Mar 4 18:01:42 UTC 1999


	It's been pointed out by various people that words now used for
salmon could have referred to trout or any other such fish. So, you might
want to superimpose a map for trout.

>	This stuff about the supposed distribution of salmon has been
>bothering me for a while (15 yrs?).  I do not happen to have Grzimek's
>Encyclopedia of Animal Life (or whatever it is called) on me right now,
>but I could have sworn it states that there are salmon (non-spawning,
>perhaps?) in the Danube.  So perhaps there is something to this /lak/
>stuff after all.
>
>					DLW



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