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of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Cape Elizabeth, Maine, unless perhaps in one or two 

 small streams tributary to Ipswich Bay, Massachusetts. However, they do populate 

 many of the small tributaries of Casco Bay, Maine {20 \ 105; 45: 49, table), and there 

 are sea-going populations in the area near Jonesport (see p. 534 and Study Material, 

 p. 525); they probably occur elsewhere as well along the eastern part of the Maine 

 coast ; but these can hardly be plentiful, otherwise anglers would be familiar with them. 

 Huntsman found no evidence of them in either salt or brackish water along the New- 

 Brunswick shore of the Bay of Fundy {38: 60), but White has reported them for the 

 river estuaries at the head of the Bay {q^\ 180); according to local information, sea-run- 

 mng fontinalis still exist along the Nova Scotian shore of the Bay, notably in Salmon River. 



Detailed information is lacking as to their status along the outer Nova Scotian 

 coast west of Halifax, but east of Halifax there are Salters in practically every trout 

 stream that is not blocked by high falls i^^ all around Cape Breton, along the entire 

 southern coastline of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, around Prince Edward Island, the 

 Magdalens, and the Island of Anticosti. Palmer has also reported them as being 

 plentiful enough to be worth the attention of anglers at the mouth of some 26 rivers 

 and small streams along the west coast of Newfoundland, about 39 along the south 

 coast, and about 25 along the east coast {S*^). 



Published information about the Salter situation along the north shore in the inner 

 part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence is scanty, doubtless because they are so greatly over- 

 shadowed there by Atlantic salmon. But A. A. Blair has contributed the information 

 that all rivers and brooks along this coast are well stocked with them ; and Storer noted 

 more than a century ago that Brook Trout were seined by cod fishermen at the brook 

 mouths there (6j: 264). Blanc Sablon Bay, just within the Strait of Belle Isle on the 

 Labrador side, has been described by Barteau as "filled with sea trout from June through 

 July" {48: 90); they are also reported in numbers for Barge, Wreck, Red, Chateau, 

 and Temple bays within the Strait; St. Lewis Bay and Capelin bays northward; and 

 Hawke Bay, for which Barteau has reported a catch of 33 fish that weighed 137 

 pounds {48: 90, 91). Backus has also reported large runs of migrating fontina/is for 

 July and August in the Hamilton Inlet-Sandwich Bay region (5: 294). The vicinity 

 of Nain (about 56°3o' N) is the next region to the north whence they have been reported 

 in scientific literature (^2: 128), and their presence along the intervening coast was 

 established by my own local inquiry during the summer of 1900. 



Nutak Harbor, on the northwesternmost of the four Okkak Islands (57°2 8'N), is 

 the northernmost station of recent record for sea-run fontinalis on the Atlantic coast 

 of Labrador, though Gordon and Backus think it likely that "small populations are 

 more or less continuously distributed around Cape Chidley and into Ungava Bay" 

 {2y : 1 7). There are sea-going populations of fontinalis in the rivers that drain into the 

 southern part of Ungava Bay (x6: 95-97) as well as in the southern part of Hudson 

 Bay, especially around the shores of James Bay, where they are widespread in large 

 numbers {66: 40). 



38. For regional details, see especially Breck (S). 



