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Labrador; Newfoundland. 



Paa Forespørgsel meddeler den danske Konsul i St. Johns', Newfoundland, Mr. 

 John Browning i Brev af 30. April 1908 følgende Underretning, der skyldes "the 

 Deputy Minister of the Department of Marine and Fisheries", W. B. Payn: 



"Fresh water eels are found in mostly all our lakes and rivers, but not in great numbers. 

 They are also found on Labrador. There is no eel fishery of any importance in this country. 

 They are only cauj^ht now and again by trouters except on the West Coast where they arc 

 caught with traps". 



Hertil føjer Mr. Browning følgende Bemærkninger: 



"I have made several incjuiries but cannot obtain further information than is contained 

 in reply from Marine and Fisheries Department cxce])ting that the eels are not of a large 

 run; an occasional large one is caught". 



Om Mængden af de i Newfoundland fangede Aal kan intet oplyses. 



Ifølge "Annual Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, Newfound- 

 land for the year 1906", St. Johns' 1907, p. 33 udførtes der i Aaret 1906 fra Kolonien 

 53 Tønder Aal til en samlet Værdi af 465 Dollars. 



Heraf kan vi altsaa drage den Slutning, at Aalen forekommer i Labrador og 

 at den i Newfoundland maa være en almindelig forekommende Fisk, eftersom den 

 paa Vestkysten er Genstand for et Fiskeri med Ruser, og eftersom der finder en, 

 omend beskeden, Export af den Sted. 



Canada. 

 Gennem Danmarks Fiskeriagent i London, Capt. A. Solling har jeg modtaget 

 følgende Oplysninger fra Professor E. E. Princk, "Commissioner of Fisheries for 

 Canada" (i Brev af 20. Feb. 1906): 



"Only one species is recognized in this country; it is called Anguilla chrgsypa, Raf., 

 sometimes AnqiiUla rostrata. It occurs in most rivers from Prince Edward Island, Cape 

 lireton and Nova Scotia on the east to Lake Ontario and adjacent lakes on the west, an area 

 of over StXXXX) square miles. Some of the places where eels are obtained in very conside- 

 rable quantities are: the rivers of Prince Edward Island especially Cardigan, Morell and 

 Durk Rivers, also Cape Breton especially the Grand River and Mira River. In New Bruns- 

 wick the chief eel rivers are the St. John — and the Nepisiguit —, in Quebec the Three 

 Rivers and the Richelieu River. From all these nine rivers and twenty or thirty more rivers 

 frozen eels are shipped to New York and London. 



The elvers ascend from the sea in July and August. Unfortunately there is no litera- 

 ture on the eels in Canada. They are not eaten generally here as we have such quantities 

 of salmon, trout, Corefioiius or whitefish and the liner qualities of seafish; hence eels are 

 despised bj' our people generally". 



Gennem den danske Generalkonsul i Montreal, Mr. H.H.Wolff har jeg mod- 

 taget følgende interessante Oplysninger meddelte af "Office of the Minister of Marine 

 and Fisheries of Canada" og undertegnede L.P. Brodkur: 



"I may say that eels arc more or less plentiful from the Maritime Provinces, even as 

 far west as Lake Ontario. The following is a statement of the quantities and value of eels 

 caught in the different Provinces in which Ihcv are taken, during 1901: 



