CHAPTER IV. 



THE FISHERIES. 



Abundance of Trout and Salmon " No Fish" except the Cod, 

 in Native Parlance Codfish the Staple Export Volume 

 of the Business A Permanent Industry Arctic Current 

 slime feeds the small fishes, they feed the Cod, the Cod feeds 

 Man Seal Fisheries Slaughter of the " Harps " The 

 Sealing Gun Distance measured by " Gunshots " Salmon 

 Herring Lobster. 



ERHAPS there is no place on this earth 

 where fishes are as plentiful as in and around 

 Newfoundland. In every rivulet, river, lake? 

 pond or puddle of water, no matter where found, trout 

 and salmon abound, and in season the angler cannot 

 fail to get a strike and is ofttimes rewarded with six 

 to seven pound "speckled beauties," and salmon 

 weighing as much as fifteen pounds. These fish, 

 coming out of the pure cold spring water with rock 

 bottom, are of superior flavor ; but fine as they are, 

 the natives do not regard them as fish, as the following 

 incident will illustrate. On our way into the interior, 

 part of our route was over a lovely pond five miles 

 long by about three-fourths of a mile wide. We had 



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