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to the northeast. In Chignecto bay at the head of the Bay of Fundy occur 
the salmon originating in its tributary rivers. These salmon are most abundant 
on the southeast or Cumberland shore, and perhaps even migrate to some 
extent around Cape Chignecto into Minas channel. The Minas basin system 
furnishes a large number of both salmon and shad. The latter are caught as 
far out as Minas channel, but the former go much farther, being taken along 
the coast of Kings and Annapolis counties, apparently as far at times as Digby 
gut. The majority of these outside of fresh water are taken on the north shore 
of Cobequid bay, and on the south shore of Minas channel and its continuation 
in the Bay of Fundy, that is, the coast of Kings county. The salmon of the 
Annapolis basin are taken in salt water principally along the coast of Digby 
county southwest from Digby gut. 
There is evidently a distinct tendency for the salmon and shad to spread 
along the coast oceanward from the mouth of the estuary, that is in the Bay 
of Fundy to the southwest toward the Gulf of Maine. 
Although our knowledge on this point is far from complete, it is already 
evident that a large proportion of the species of fishes occurring in the Bay of 
Fundy do not pass through their entire life history in that bay and its tributary 
waters, and may therefore be considered as immigrants. Each species presents 
a more or less special case, but we may make a provisional classification of all 
the species on this basis. Such a classification is admittedly artificial and 
subject to revision. 
A. Species endemic in the Bay of Fundy and its tributary waters. 
1.. Species endemic in the Western Archipelago and its tributary waters. 
Apeltes, Aspidophoroides, Clupea, Coregonus, Cryptacanthodes, Cyclopterus, 
Fundulus, Gasterosteus aculeatus_and bispinosus, Hemitripterus, Liopsetta, Liparts, 
Lumpenus, Menidia, Microgadus, Morone, Myoxocephalus aeneus and scorpius, 
Myxine, Neoliparis, Osmerus, Petromyzon, Pholis, Pomolobus pseudoharengus, 
Pseudopleuronectes, Pungitius, Salmo, Salvelinus, Sebastes, Ulvaria, and Zoarces. 
31 species. 
2. Species occurring, if at all, in the Western Archipelago only as immi- 
grants: j 
Actpenser, Alosa, Lophopsetta, Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus, Pomolobus 
aestivalis, Poronotus, Raia erinacea, Roccus, Syngnathus, and Tautogolabrus. 
10 species. 
B. Immigrants in the Bay of Fundy. 
1. Decidedly northern species: 
Anarhichas minor, Cetorhinus, Eumicrotremus, Gymnocanthus, Mallotus, Somni- 
osus, and Triglops. 7 species. 
2. Species endemic in the latitude of the Bay of Fundy: 
Ammodytes, Anarhichas lupus, Brosmius, Enchelyopus, Gadus, Glyptocephalus, 
Hippoglossoides, Hippoglossus, Isurus, Limanda, Lophius,:Lycodes, Macrourus, 
Maurolicus, Melanogrammus, Merluccius, Pollachius, Raia diaphanes, radiata, 
and stabuliforis, Scomber, Scomberesox, Squalus, Thunnus, Urophycis tenuis and 
chuss, Vulpecula, and Xiphias. 28 species. 
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