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St. George's Falls on the Magaquadavic River, New- 

 Brunswick, this summer and fall. Some official delay- 

 arose and the pass could not be erected in time to enable 

 salmon to use it. 



TEST AUTHORIZED IN NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA, AT 

 ST. GEORGE. 



The falls are 31 feet high, quite perpendicular, and 

 at the head of a long, deep, narrow gorge or canyon, full 

 of jagged rocks. Salmon every year get up the gorge 

 and jump at the high falls, but none have ever, I fear^ 

 succeeded in getting up. I regard the place as one of 

 the most difficult to be found, and selected it owing to 

 my confidence that this perfect fish pass will succeed 

 where every other fishway must fail. Had I been per- 

 mitted to carry out my plan, I have no fear that it would 

 not be a complete success; but it was possible only to 

 prepare the materials this season and even if erected in 

 September or October, salmon will not use it, for they 

 ascend early and are seen jumping in July and August, 

 or even in June. The Dominion Government has pro- 

 vided the money to cover the cost of this first Perfect 

 Fish Pass, being apparently most anxious to at once 

 adopt this pass. The case of this river will be even a 

 more important success than on the rivers I have already 

 referred to. The Magaquadavic River, though resorted 

 to by salmon, year after year, is closed by the precipitous 

 falls at St. George only a few hundred yards from its 

 mouth. No salmon have ever got further up. Hence 

 the success of this fish pass would create a new salmon 

 river. A successful fish pass would not only restore riv- 

 ers destroyed by artificial dams; but would open up 

 waters hitherto inaccessible and therefore destitute of 

 salmon owing to impassable falls. I shall test next year 

 two remarkable rivers up which salmon ascend only a 

 short distance. On one of these rivers (in Cape Breton) 

 an obstructing fall exists not more than three or four 

 miles from the sea, and the late Inspector Bertram in- 

 formed me that he had seen 1,100 or 1,200 salmon in the 



