rHE UANANICHE 



life is one continuous struggle in the midst of 

 terrific currents, rapids, and falls. Naturally it 

 becomes strong and vigorous, and when once it 

 feels the prick of the hook, fights fiercely until 

 the end. 



Lake St. John has no less than eighteen tribu- 

 taries flowing into it, three of which are from four 

 hundred to six hundred miles in length, — all are 

 swift-flowing rivers with innumerable falls and 

 rapids. They fairly teem with ouananiche through- 

 out their entire length, which demonstrates the 

 improbability of the fish ever becoming extinct. 

 To avoid any possibility of their being depleted 

 locally, a hatchery has been established at Lake 

 St. John, where thousands of ouananiche, as well 

 as the salt-water salmon, are hatched and placed in 

 their native waters each year. 



The most ancient traditions of the Montagnais 

 Indians make mention of " the little salmon," and 

 through them its nature and habits are thoroughly 

 known to the present generation. Modern stu- 

 dents of ichthyology for a long time believed that 

 the ouananiche, at some time in the past, had as- 

 cended from the sea to spawn in the waters it now 

 inhabits, and had become landlocked by some 

 barrier thrown up by Nature. Investigation 

 proves this to be erroneous, so far, at least, as 



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