LOCALITIES OF SALMON TROUT. 365 



SALMON TROUT FISHING. 



There is but one region on this continent in which this 

 admirable sport can be enjoyed at all ; for, singular to say, the 

 fish is only found in those rivers of New Brunswick which flow 

 eastwardly into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the Bays of Gaspe 

 and Chaleurs. 



As if to make amends, however, for the narrow limits of their 

 geographical range, they absolutely swarm during their season, 

 in all the rivers which they frequent, traversing the sea bays in 

 enormous schulls, and running up all the rivers to the head of 

 tide-water, beyond which they do not ascend on these coasts. 

 Why this should be the case it is not easy to conjecture, since it 

 would appear to indicate a variation in the species from one of 

 the normal habits of the race — that, I mean, which dictates to 

 the parent fish that they must run up into the aerated waters of 

 pure fresh rivers, in order to deposit their ova. 



It may be, though I am not prepared to state that it is, the 

 fact, that the ascent of all these rivers beyond a certain point is 

 rendered impossible to the fish, by long rapids, or impassable 

 cataracts, and that, perceiving the impossibility of arriving at 

 the place of their proper and natural destination, the fish them- 

 selves cease to attempt it, and merely run up from the brackish 



