SOME LABRADOR RIVERS 



nearly all by salmon, and although these 

 southern rivers are leased by sportsmen for 

 fly-fishing, the majority of the salmon are 

 caught not for sport but as a business in nets. 

 For some distance to the east of Seven Islands 

 there is a salmon-net at every mile mark along 

 the sandy shore. At the Moisie River a large 

 salmon-fishery is in operation. At Mingan 

 the Hudson's Bay Company sets several nets, 

 the old salmon-fisher with whom we stayed had 

 four or five more along the beach and at the 

 island opposite, and two Gaspe" men, camped 

 at the mouth of the Mingan River, set six or 

 seven more. Nets at the mouths of rivers are 

 allowed if they do not extend more than one 

 third of the way across. With all these nets to 

 intercept the salmon on their way up the Mingan 

 River to spawn it would seem as if few would 

 escape, yet the owner of the river was just 

 beginning his fly-fishing season as we left, and 

 the fishing was generally good in the pools below 

 the falls. We were told that at times the falls 

 were black in places with the fish, tirelessly 

 trying again and again to surmount them. 

 We saw none there on June 2ist but it was 

 still rather early in the season. 



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