20 The Atlantic Salmon 



fresh water as soon as the ice is out and go 

 straight through to the head waters of the rivers. 

 This run will be on the rivers of the Bay of Cha- 

 leurs in which it occurs, from the middle to the last 

 of May — this is followed during the first fort- 

 night of June (in an ordinary season) by another 

 run of good-sized fish and to them succeed the 

 smaller ones and the grilse, though occasionally 

 there is a late run containing a scattering number 

 of large salmon. On other rivers in the same 

 district no fish come until nearly or about July i, 

 and then observe no order in their appearance, 

 great and small coming together, and on more 

 than one river the grilse accompany their 

 elders. Undoubtedly fresh salmon come in from 

 the sea until the rivers freeze, but in numbers 

 very much smaller than those of the early runs. 

 One of the best runs of salmon in the Miramichi 

 River comes in August, when the upward migra- 

 tion has practically ceased in the neighboring 

 rivers, and I think there must be a still later run 

 in some other streams which remains as far up 

 them as the thickness of ice will permit, spawns 

 beneath the ice, and furnishes the kelts which 

 come down in May following; for these kelts 

 cannot be the fish which spawned the October 



