300 THE LABRADOR PENINSULA. CHAP. xvm. 



Gaspe, from Cape Chat, in the Eiver St. Lawrence, to 

 Paspebiac, and even as far as New Richmond, in the Bay of 

 Chaleurs. Formerly they were taken in abundance even 

 at Eimousky, at Escoumins, and in Carleton Bay. But for 

 the last thirty or forty years they have appeared in such 

 small quantities in these places that fishing for them has 

 been given up. 



On the north shore of the Eiver and Gulf of St. Lawrence 

 and on the coast of Labrador, the fish abounds almost all 

 along the coast from Point des Monts to the boundary 

 of Canada, in Blanc Sablon Bay. But it is chiefly in 

 the last-mentioned bay, in Bradore Bay, in Salmon Bay, 

 at Dog Island, in Mutton Bay, at Matashguhau, at the 

 Eiver St. John, in Magpie Bay, and at Sheldrake Eiver, 

 that it is most abundant. 



In many of these places the cod approaches so near the 

 coast that at times from 4,000 to 5,000 may be taken at a 

 single haul of the seine ; but they are generally fished for 

 with hempen lines and hooks baited with pieces of fresh 

 fish, or even with small fishes whole, as caplin and launce. 



It is chiefly the fishermen from Nova Scotia and the 

 United States who carry on the cod fishery in vessels 

 along the coasts. The Canadian fishermen use boats, 

 most of them near the coasts and on the banks in the 

 neighbourhood of the coves and bays where they re- 

 side. 



A great number of the fishermen from the Magdalen 

 Islands, Bonaventure, Paspebiac, Malbaie, and Douglas- 

 town, go and follow their calling on the coast of Labrador ; 

 they find good harbours there, in which their vessels are 

 safe, and sometimes such an abundance of fish, that it is 



