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mits. As it is desirable, for reasons which I will 

 explain, that trout should be kept down, the free 

 use of seines should be allowed for their capture. 

 In this manner, if any grilse were captured, they 

 could be liberated, which it would be useless and 

 wasteful to do when a grilse is hanging dead in a 

 trouc net. 



There are many other means of affording more 

 protection to salmon, such as encouraging the 

 capture of porpoises, both black and white. These 

 are the worst enemies of the large fish. Seals are 

 also destructive, especially in the fall of the year, 

 when the fish are weak, but these, as well as otter 

 and mink and bears, are themselves of sufficient 

 value to require no further incentive to kill them. 

 Some birds, however, which are of no economic 

 value, should have a small bounty placed upon 

 them, even if it was only just sufficient to cover 

 the cost of ammunition. In this list I would 

 place kingfishers, sheldrakes, loons and ospreys. 

 mbm &0 Salmon Wittto ? Where do the 

 large quantities of salmon that approach the 

 shores of the St. Lawrence in the spring come 

 from ? Where have they passed the winter ? To 

 some extent this is still a problem. We read of 

 an occasional one being taken with hook and line 

 by the Newfoundland cod fishing fleet. Herring 

 netters, in St. George's Bay, sometimes capture 

 a straggler in their nets in winter. Captain 

 Adams, of Gloucester, a celebrated mackerel 



