SOME LABRADOR RIVERS 



ways are avoided by spawning salmon, while 

 rivers, like the Manitou, with falls of such a 

 size that the fish are unable to ascend them, al- 

 though there is much good spawning ground 

 above, are also avoided. Eventually these 

 rivers will be treated as are similar rivers in 

 Norway, where fish ladders are built enabling 

 the fish to pass by the falls. 



Comeau gives some interesting figures show- 

 ing that contrary to the usual belief the catch 

 of salmon has increased over thirty per cent, 

 of late years. Thus the average yearly catch 

 of salmon for the whole of the Province of 

 Quebec for the years 1896, '97, '98 was 685,000 

 pounds, for 1906, '07, '08 over one million 

 pounds. He also presents some records of 

 fly-fishing on the St. John and Moisie Rivers. 

 During the season of 1871, five sportsmen be- 

 tween June 23d and July i8th caught with 

 the fly 416 salmon having a total weight of 

 4,755 Ibs. ; the largest fish weighed 26 Ibs. 

 In 1869 the result of 16 days' fishing with the 

 fly by one man on the Moisie was 138 salmon 

 weighing 2,413 Ibs., or an average of nearly 

 17 1-2 Ibs.; the largest fish weighed 37 Ibs. In 

 1871 the records of three rods in the Moisie was 



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