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of a Newfoundland fishing schooner told me that he had caught some salmon, but not 

 many, in Ryan's Bay, which is as far north as he had fished. Ryan's Bay is not named on 

 any map available to me but from Jordan's notes (Ishn-Jordan Expedition, 1926) I 

 judge it to be between Nachvak Bay and Ekortiorsoak in about north latitude 59° 30'. 



In a collection of fishes from Labrador obtained by the IsUn-Jordan Expedition and 

 turned over to me for study is a salmon of nearly 30 inches total length, which is said to 

 be one of the only three that had been taken in a cod trap at Saglek Bay that season 

 up to August 11. Mr. Jordan was of the opinion that these northern salmon were 

 strays which had fallen in with schools of sea trout (chars), while the bulk of the salmon 

 remained in the warmer southern region of Labrador. Mr. Jordan said that no salmon 

 had been reported in Nachvak Bay that year although several are usually caught every 

 season. There were no signs of parrs in the streams. On July 30, 1929, two salmon were 

 taken in a cod trap at Saglek Bay. 



While such roving salmon apparently occur in very small numbers almost up to Cape 

 Chidley, as Low (1897, p. 330) said, there is no evidence of a migration along the 

 coast. 



If the salmon do not migrate in numbers along the coast it would hardly be expected 

 that they would reappear in quantities in Ungava Bay unless they come from some 

 other direction. Low's (1897, p. 330) reference to the temperature barrier to Hudson's 

 Bay may possibly apply to northern Labrador. Packard says that the Labrador mid- 

 summer corresponds in temperature to that of the middle of May in New England. 

 Farther north the same seasonal conditions cannot obtain. The geographical distribu- 

 tion of the salmon, then, may be determined by the range of temperature conditions 

 represented by those New England spring months, varying more or less either way from 

 the month of May. 



Professor E. E. Prince (1899, p. Ixii), Dominion Commissioner of Fisheries, says that 

 long conversations with residents from Fort Churchill [Hudson Bay], Chesterfield Inlet, 

 etc., who have Uved upon the various rivers in question, have shown rather that the large 

 salmonlike fish captured for food have been enormous sea trout or species of Salvelinus; 

 also, he stated that he had examined specimens of large salmonids supposed to be 

 salmon from northern Labrador and every example proved to be a recognized species 

 of northern trout [Salvelinus]. Professor Prince indicated that the range of the true 

 salmon ceased north of Hamilton Inlet and that it is not found in the rivers of the 

 District of Ungava. 



The range as pertains to reproduction may cease somewhere not far north of Hope- 

 dale and the wanderers farther north may signify no more than do the summer stragglers 

 of more southern species of fishes m the waters of New England. However, the opinion 

 has been advanced that the reason the sahnon do not occur more abundantly north- 

 ward is the lack of suitable rivers in which to spawn. If these northern so-called 'salmon' 

 are chars, the northern reproductive range of the salmon but shghtly overlaps the 

 southern range of arctic chars, the southernmost recorded locahty for which is New- 

 foundland. The more northern extensions of the range of the salmon in Europe and its 



