34 The Atlantic Salmon 



salmon of forty-one and a half pounds and her 

 length was exactly forty-three inches. So short 

 and thick was she that I am sure her great weight 

 for her length could not be taken as affording a 

 guide to estimate the weights of other fish. As 

 against the measurement of this fish, Mr. Sturdy 

 took one of fifty pounds in 1900 on the Vosse in 

 Norway which verified the standard used in com- 

 piling the above table. 



Mr. Bund gives an instance of a smolt which 

 he marked, and which was captured next season 

 on its first return from the sea, weighing twenty 

 pounds. This was a growth entirely out of pro- 

 portion to that usual with smolts from the same 

 ponds, and cannot well be explained from any 

 facts within our knowledge, nor can the fact of 

 salmon growing so much larger in some rivers 

 than in others. The Upsalquitch River, an afflu- 

 ent of the Restigouche, produces salmon which 

 will average seven to nine pounds, though a rare 

 big one is found. For the past twenty years this 

 river has been stocked with the fry of the Resti- 

 gouche salmon, which will average fully twice as 

 large. Certainly the millions of fry of a bigger 

 breed put in this river ought to have made some 

 difference in the size of its fish, but the change, if 



