ATLANTIC SALMON 



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rather slow and the developing picture con- 

 tinue to be fragmentary. 



The St. John Salmon 



The St. John River (Fig. 1) drains west- 

 ern New Brunswick and has as its principal 

 branch for salmon, the Tobique River of 

 the northern part of the province. Al- 

 though the salmon are unable to ascend 

 beyond Grand Falls, the whole river has a 



very large watershed, extending into the 

 high land of northern Maine and southern 

 Quebec, and assuring a large and quite de- 

 pendable discharge, which is made a stead- 

 ier one by being to some extent stored at 

 sea-level in a very extensive estuary. The 

 very narrow mouth of the estuary at St. 

 John harbor not only holds the river water 

 back, but also prevents the entrance of 

 much sea water from the Bay of Fundy 



Fig. 1. St. John River, New Brunswick, showing distribution of salmon from feeding grounds 

 IN THE Bay of Fundy to uppermost spawning grounds in the Tobique River. 



