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FISHERIES OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 



'fry' wending their way up the fish-pass, holding their own, 

 against the stream that flowed from the boxes. The growth 

 of the fish was very slow for the first three months, but after- 

 wards they grew more rapidly, and when in the fall I had 

 to prepare for the salmon ova, I gave the young trout to the 

 late John Gilmour, Esq., to stock some waters at Marchmount, 

 near Quebec. Some of the fish had attained a growth of three 

 and a half to four inches and they were almost as broad as 

 they were long, owing to care and good feeding. 



"For the first season's operations, I had endeavored to 

 procure salmon spawn from the river Moy in Ireland, but 

 the good offices of a kind friend, Mr. Holliday, the proprietor 



of the Salmon fisheries on the 'Moy' 

 were rendered abortive, by circum- 

 stances beyond control, and the ova 

 reached me in an imperfect state, to 

 our great disappointment. 



"In the fall of 1858, having 

 had the Ovarium perfectly cleansed 

 from all impurities, and having made 

 some slight alterations in the 'fish 

 way, ' I made preparations to procure 

 salmon ova, from the lower reaches 

 of the Jacques Cartier, near 'Les 

 Ecureuils. ' I engaged a very intel- 

 Mr. John Holliday, Sr. (i) ligent habitant, who lived near the 



river, to watch the fish and notify me 



when he saw the salmon preparing their beds. The man 

 entered heartily into his work, as he had seen the season's 

 operations with the trout spawn. It is needless to give a 

 detailed statement of the various seasons' operations. Each 



i Mr. John Holliday, Senior, whose picture appears on this 

 rage, leased the fishing rights in the tidal waters of the Moisie 

 River in 1859 and remained connected therewith up to the time of 

 his death, the fishing rights in question being thereafter controlled 

 by members of his family up to 1912. Mr. Holliday, Senior, who 

 Lad had considerable experience of Salmon rivers in Ireland, con- 

 ducted a hatchery on the bank of the Moisie for the purpose of 

 maintaining a regular supply of fish in the river. 



