When the fish rises to examine this visitor, it is secured with a spear.

The Eskimo fish spear has a central shaft with a sharp piece of steel, usually an old nail, set in the end.

On each side is a piece of deer antler pointing downward, lashed onto the shaft with a fine line, and sharp nails, pointing inward, are set in the two fragments of antler.
When this spear is thrust down on the fish, the antlers spread as they strike the fish's back; he is impaled by the sharp point above him, and the sharp barbs on either side keep him from getting away.
The char ( ?) of North Grant Land is a beautiful mottled fish, weighing sometimes as much as eleven or twelve pounds.

I believe that the pink fiber of these fish--taken from water never warmer than 35 deg.

or 40 deg.