'8 GEORGE V 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 38a 



A. 1918 



VIII. 



EXAMINATION OF AFFECTED SALMON, MIRAMICHI HATCHERY, 



NEW BRUNSWICK. 



By F. C. Harrison, D.Sc, F.R.S.C, etc., Principal of Macdoiiald College, Ste. Anne 



de Bellevue, P.Q. 



On October 11, 1915, I received a telephone message from Dr. A. B. Macallum, 

 Secretary-Treasurer of the Biological Board of Canada, with reference to a diseased 

 condition of the salmon in the hatchery at South Esk, N.B. He also informed me 

 that Dr. Huntsman, of the University of Toronto, was leaving in order to investigate 

 the trouble, and if I thought it wise to do so I could join him and proceed to the 

 tatchery. 



I got into telephonic communication with Dr. Huntsman on his passing through 

 l^-rontreal, and after discussing the situation thought it best to remain at the labor- 

 atory to examine the diseased fish that Dr. Huntsman would send me in order that I 

 night investigate the disease, for it seemed better to attempt the finding out of the 

 trouble with all bacteriological facilities to hand, which would have been lacking at 

 the hatchery, and which at that time it was impossible to take there. 



Ketaining Pond at the Miramichi Hatchery, South Esk, N.B. 



On October 14, I received a copy of the letter which Dr. Macallum received from 

 the Deputy Minister of the Department of Naval Service, reading as follows: — 



The officer in charge of the Miramichi hatchery, which is located on the 

 South Esk river, a small tributary of the Southwest Miramichi, recently re- 

 ported that a disease had broken out amongst the salmon in the retaining pond 

 in connection with the hatchery in which the parent fish are placed and retained 



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