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strays from the St. John river or escaped fish from the landlocked form that is 
to be fouad in the Chamcook and other lakes of the district. The St. John 
river provides a fishery along the coast of the Bay of Fundy chiefly to the south 
west from St. John harbour. The rivers of Minas basin provide a fishery not 
only in the basin, but through Minas gut into Minas channel and down the 
coast of Kings and Annapolis counties. The sea fishery provided by the Anna- 
polis river is relatively unimportant. 
Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill). 
Abundant in many of the streams around the bay. We have never obtained 
it in the salt or brackish water around the Bay of Fundy, as it may be obtained 
in the southern part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 
Mallotus villosus (Miiller). 
Of very irregular occurrence in the Bay of Fundy. Perley in his investi- 
gations of the Bay of Fundy obtained reports (1852, p. 136 and 1388) of its 
occurrence on the coast of St. John county, at a number of points all east of 
St. John. None have been taken there in recent years although the tradition 
persists. 
In the Western Archipelago we have obtained several records in recent 
years. In May, 1915, and again in October, 1916, a few were taken among 
small herring in the approaches to Passamaquoddy bay. In October and Novem- 
ber of the latter year, they were taken in rather large numbers in the herring 
weirs in the Passamaquoddy region (Kendall, 1917, p. 28). From fishery 
officers reports of their occurrence about that time at a number of points along 
the coast of Charlotte county, but not at Grand Manan island, have been 
obtained. The only other part of the Bay of Fundy where they were noticed 
was the coast of Kings county, where large quantities are said to have been 
taken in May and June of 1917, but not in 1918. 
In January, February and March of 1919, we obtained a number of specimens 
with the shrimp trawl in water 50 fathoms deep off Campobello island, Char- 
lotte county, and in April of that year, Kendall (1919, p. 70) records that they 
were taken in the Penobscot river in southern Maine. 
As the capelin must be considered as invading the Bay of Fundy from the 
outer coast of Nova Scotia and entering the bay at its mouth on the Nova 
Scotian side, it would be expected that they should occur more frequently in 
Yarmouth and Digby counties. Perley (1852, p. 164) states: ‘No capelin has 
ever been seen at Brier Island.’’ The fishery officers of those counties informed 
me in 1919 that no capelin are taken there. However, for the season of 1903 the 
Digby reporter for the Fisheries Intelligence Bureau stated that “Caplin were 
reported in good fishing on May 22,” (36th Ann. Rep. Dep. Mar. and Fish. 
Fisheries, p. 307). 
Osmerus mordax, (Mitchill). 
Found generally around the shores of the bay, but not abundant. It is 
restricted to a very narrow shore zone, and is further limited by lack of suitable 
streams for spawning. We have obtained it not only around Passamaquoddy 
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