Sir R. Musgrave talks of spring salmon of 53 lb. and silver salmon of 16 and 8 lb.
I inquired carefully from the manager of the Cannery Factory in Quatiaski Cove, and believe the following to be the correct nomenclature.
The tyee or King salmon, running from 28 lb. to 60 and upwards.
The spring salmon, which appeared to me to be the young tyee, having the same relation to the big tyee as the grilse has to the salmon, from 15 to 20 lb.
The cohoe, which run from 7 to 12 lb.; and lastly the blue back, generally termed cohoe, averaging about 6 lb.
These latter most of us called cohoe, and were the fish being caught on my arrival at the hotel.
The run of tyee had not regularly set in, though a few odd ones were being caught.
Later on, when making a trip on the Cannery steamer which collects fish daily from various stations up and down the coast, the manager of the factory, who was on board, pointed out to me amongst the hundreds of fish we collected, the difference between the blue back and the real cohoe.
The former runs much earlier than the latter, and is seldom over 6 lb. in weight; the latter were, he stated, just beginning to run—then the middle of August—and the largest on board weighed 14 lb.