42 The Atlantic Salmon 



people of a supply of cheap and nutritious food 

 which could be easily created by utilizing the 

 barren waters of our rivers. The value of the 

 salmon fisheries of the United Kingdom is 

 estimated to be from ^750,000 to ^800,000 per 

 year, and certainly those of the Atlantic coast 

 of the British possessions in North America now 

 accessible, under a judicious system of protection 

 and propagation properly managed, would shortly 

 exceed this amount in value. The Atlantic trib- 

 utaries of the United States where salmon are 

 now practically exterminated would, under proper 

 conditions, yield an approximation to this sum in 

 the next ten years ; but until the present system 

 of mismanagement is changed, we shall have to 

 depend for our salmon on Canada, where the 

 persecuted fish have a somewhat better chance 

 than with us. 



The British possessions in North America 

 undoubtedly afford the greatest field for the 

 salmon angler of the future of any part of the 

 globe. Beginning at the south in the river St. 

 Lawrence, and farther east in Nova Scotia, 

 which has a number of small and fair rivers, and 

 following the north shores of the river and of the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence up to the Strait of Belle Isle, 



