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THE MIGRATION AND CONSERVATION OF SALMON 



TABLE III 



Percentage of Tagged Salmon Eecaptured in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1937 



Locality of tagging 



Character of the locality 

 of tagging 



Percent- 

 Number of age of re- 

 tagged captured 

 salmon tagged 

 salmon 



Type of dis- 

 tribution 



Port-aux-Basques, N. F. 

 drift-net fishery 



East Coast of New Bruns- 

 wick, Miramichi drift-net 

 fishery 



North Shore of the Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence (several lo- 

 calities) shore-net fishery 



Margaree Harbor, N. S. 

 shore-net fishery 



Gaspe Bay, P. Q. shore-net 

 fishery 



North side of Cabot Strait, 599 



2-9 miles offshore 



East Coast of New Bruns- 411 



wick, 4-15 miles offshore 



Indented coast and estuaries, 337 



onshore 



Small harbor on open coast, 267 



onshore 



Entrance to large bay, on- 

 shore 



100 



13.3 

 17.5 



20.2 



28.7 

 38.0 



Wide radiating 

 dispersal 



Extensive coast- 

 wise range 



Local coastwise 



Local coastwise 



Chiefly local in 

 Gaspe Bay 



Total 



1,714 



18.9 



Port-aux-Basques drift-net fishing area, 

 and (2) the local nature of the movements 

 of the salmon in most other localities. 



The Port-aux-Basques drift-net fishery 

 salmon were recaptured in Cape Breton, 

 on the east coast of New Brunswick, in the 

 Bay of Chaleur, on the Gaspe Peninsula, 

 on the western part of the north shore of 

 the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and on the west 

 and south coasts of Newfoundland. In this 

 widespread radiating distribution, one- 

 sixth of the recaptured Port-aux-Basques 

 salmon were taken outside the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence. The distribution of the salmon 

 was 40 per cent to Newfoundland and 60 

 per cent to Canada. 



Tagged salmon were taken in all sections 

 of the Gulf of St. Lawrence except in the 

 eastern section of the north shore, and 

 showed the greatest concentration on the 

 east coast of New Brunswick and in the 

 Bay of Chaleur. Their absence in the east- 

 ern section of the north shore of the Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence and the late run of salmon to 

 that locality suggests the probability that 

 the salmon of that section and of the north- 

 ern part of the west coast of Newfoundland 

 may come through the Strait of Belle Isle. 

 The salmon tagged at Seven Islands like- 



wise showed a widespread distribution cov- 

 ering the Bay of Chaleur and the western 

 section of the north shore of the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence. 



With few exceptions the salmon tagged 

 at Margaree Harbor, Gaspe, Natashquan, 

 St. Augustin, and St. Paul were recaptured 

 locally and did not migrate to other sec- 

 tions of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In addi- 

 tion to a localized distribution in these ter- 

 minal areas there was lateral movement 

 along the coast in both directions from the 

 point of tagging, in each instance the trend 

 being predominantly in one direction. 

 Tagging in the estuaries of the St. Paul 

 and St. Augustin rivers showed irregular 

 movements up and down stream from the 

 point of tagging, and even departures from 

 the river. 



The Miramichi drift-net fishery salmon 

 showed a wide local distribution limited to 

 the east shore of New Brunswick and the 

 Bay of Clialeur, extending from Kouchi- 

 bouguac Beach, N. B., to Gascons, P. I., at 

 the northern limits of the Bay of Chaleur. 

 Slightly over one-half of the salmon, other 

 than those recaptured in the drift-net fish- 

 ery, went to the Bay of Chaleur. The dis- 

 tribution of the tagged salmon corroborated 



