90 Fisheries of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 



Scotland, cause great attention to be paid by the British Fishery 

 Boards, to the enforcement of most stringent regulations for their 

 preservation and increase. With reference to the preservation of 

 Salmon, the Inspectors of the Irish Fisheries reported to the 

 Board in 1846, as follows : — " In illustration of the benefits of a 

 steady perseverance in a proper system, we may allude to the 

 Foyle, where the produce has been raised from an average of 43 

 tons previous to 1823, to a steady produce of nearly 200 tons 

 including the Stake Weirs, in the Estuary, and very nearly to 300 

 tons, as we believe, in the year 1842." The Inspectors also men- 

 tion the ca?e of the small River of Newport, County Mayo, which 

 was formerly exempt from '• close season." In three years, after 

 the Parliamentary Regulations were introduced and enforced, the 

 produce of this River was raised from half a ton, or at the utmost, 

 a ton every season, to eight tons of Salmon, and three tons of white 

 Trout, for the season ending the third year. 



The preservation and maintenance of the Salmon Fisheries of 

 New Brunswick generally, is a subject w T ell worthy of earnest 

 attention. To prevent the destruction of the fish during the 

 spawning season, and by improper modes of fishing, as also to pro- 

 vide for the passage of the fish up those Streams which they have 

 formerly frequented, but from which they are now excluded by 

 Mill Dams, some further enactments are absolutely necessary, and 

 more efficient means are required for enforcing the provisions of the 

 law. The most valuable River Fishery of the Province is in a 

 fair way of being rendered valueless, or wholly destroyed ; and as 

 the Rivers are the natural nurseries of the Salmon, the fishery on 

 the coast will, of course, be destroyed also. 



Large quantities of Salmon are caught every season on the La- 

 brador coast, in stake-nets placed at the mouths of Rivers, which 

 empty into Bays and Harbours ; tliese are split and salted in large 

 tubs, and afterwards repacked in tierces of two hundred pounds 

 each. A number of vessels, from Newfoundland and Canada, are 

 engaged annually in this Fishery; but the American fishing ves- 

 sels pursue it with great vigour and assiduity, and it is reported 

 that of late years they have found it very profitable. 



The quantities of pickled Salmon exported from Newfoundland 

 in 1847, was 4,917 tierces, one half of which was the produce of 

 the Salmon fishery on the coast of Labrador. 



