THE LAND-LOCKED SALMON. 89 



The St. Croix fish vary in size at different parts of the 

 water system in which they are found; those of the Schoodic 

 River and Grand Lake Stream, where they are most numerous 

 and where the hatchery is situated, average a little less than 

 three pounds; specimens over six pounds are rare, and there 

 is no record of anything over ten pounds. It appears that 

 the average size in Grand Lake Stream increased to about 

 four pounds between 1875 and 1884. These fish, however, 

 were the ones specially taken for breeding purposes by Mr. 

 Atkins, and therefore would probably be large; and owing to 

 their protection for nine years, there would naturally be a 

 greater number to select from. 



The Lake Wenern Salmon of Sweden, like the larger of the 

 Sebago examples, are equal to sea Salmon in size. Dr. Day 

 gives the lengths of a couple examined by him as thirty-one 

 and thirty-three inches, and other accounts show that they 

 run from seven to twenty pounds. 



The Nova Scotia and New Brunswick fish are small the 

 latter especially; a couple of pounds is a good weight for 

 them, but the waters in which they occur are comparatively 

 restricted in area, and they are much fished. Hallock states 

 that he has seen specimens of the Salmon from the Stony Lake 

 Chain, in Ontario, weighing twenty pounds. This curiously 

 enough, for it is the nearest to me is the only one of the 

 "Land-locked Salmon," besides the Swedish variety, that I 

 have not personally examined; but I have never been able to 

 visit the region during the fishing season, and cannot succeed 

 in getting a specimen. I sometimes think Mr. Hallock's fish 

 must have been the true Salmon of Lake Ontario, now all but 

 extinct. In spite of efforts to preserve them, and to propagate 

 them by artificial breeding, which promised for a time to be 

 successful, the changed conditions of the streams, owing to 

 the clearing and settlement of the country, have been fatal. 



It is worth noting that, though game and game fishes can 

 and do survive civilization in Europe, they soon disappear 



