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This is the only river in Xew England, except the I^^arraguagus, where 

 fly-fishing for salmon has ever been practiced. In 18G7, and for several 

 years before and after that date, several gentlemen from Portland and 

 Boston fished it for some weeks each season, and met with fair success. 



Salmon are caught occasionally near Eastport, and these are probably 

 Denny's Elver salmon, although it is quite possible that they are to be 

 referred to the Saint Croix or the Saint John. It is stated on good au- 

 thority that the drift-net fishery for salmon outside the harbor of Saint 

 John extends very far toward Grand Manan, the boats and nets of the 

 fishermen being sometimes swept by the tide in a single night quite to 

 that point, and sometimes catching salmon there. The salmon caught 

 near Eastport are mostly taken in the herring weirs. Capt. U. S. Treat, 

 who has fished here since 1811, has sometimes taken as many as thirty 

 salmon in his weir ; in other seasons but a single salmon. He once took 

 one in January, and found it to be in perfect condition. The same gen- 

 tleman has found in the stomachs of salmon caught here herring five 

 inches long.* It also occasionally hapi>ens that salmon are taken on 

 the hooks of pollack-fishermen. These hooks are "baited with herring, 

 and kept near the surface of the water. 



5. — LITTLE FALLS RIVEE. 



This is a very small river near the Denny's. It lies wholly" in the town 

 of Edmunds, rises in a small sheet of water called Edmund's Lake, and 

 is not over ten miles in length. Salmon ascend it every year. It has 

 been observed that they enter it from the salt water of Cobscook Eiver 

 in the fall, and competent observers think that this is their ordinary 

 course, very few of them entering the stream in early summer at the 

 ordinary season for the ascent of rivers. That they breed in it is at- 

 tested by the common occurrence of salmon-parr. They appear to be 

 increasing in numbers. 



6. — ORA]N"GE EIVER.. 



Salmon once frequented this river, but it does not appear that they 

 were ever very numerous. Three dams near the mouth of the river cut 

 them off from all breeding-grounds, and they were exterminated. In 

 1870 several hundred young salmon, hatched from eggs obtained from 

 the Canadian establishment at Newcastle, Ontario, were placed in this 

 river. In October, 1873, a single salmon was caught at the lower dam 

 and placed in the river above. This is the only specimen seen for many 

 years. The dams are all provided with fish-ways for alewives, and 

 through them it is probable that salmon would ascend at the proper 

 season. 



7. — EAST MACniAS EIVER. 



Though better adapted, by its extensive lakes and gentle current, to 

 the production of alewives, this river has always afforded salmon, and 



* Captain Treat formerly carried on the salmon fishery at Cape Jellison, Penobscot 

 Bay, lut never found fish in their stomachs, nor anything else that he recognized. 



