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fisherman, has told me that he now and then cap- 

 tures a salmon in his purse seines when fishing 

 for mackerel off the Atlantic coast in winter, 

 and a few captures have been reported by other 

 mackerel seiners. These few data have given 

 rise to the belief that most of our salmon go out 

 to the Atlantic Ocean and winter there, returning 

 in the spring. This may probably be true of sal- 

 mon belonging to the New Brunswick shores, but 

 I do not believe that our North Shore salmon 

 stray away so very far, though possibly a few 

 may do so. I am of the opinion that the bulk of 

 them remain in the deep waters of the St. Law- 

 rence. In support of this I have a record of one 

 salmon being taken on a halibut trawl off Caribou 

 Islands in the month of April. I have also 

 found remains of salmon in the stomach of seals, 

 shot off Pointe des Monts in the months of Jan- 

 uary and February. Halibut, herrings, flounders, 

 dog fish and Greenland sharks, lobsters, etc., 

 move out into the deep waters of the St. Law- 

 rence on the approach of winter and return to- 

 wards land in the spring as soon as the ice per- 

 mits. Why should not salmon do the same thing ? 

 JW& of tfc Salmon. This was for a very 

 long time a much discussed question, some per- 

 sons asserting that they feed only on small ani- 

 malculae contained in water, and that for that 

 reason nothing was ever found in their stomachs. 

 I was still quite a boy when I heard of this 



