Fish and Fishing 



plain, the St. Lawrence River, and tributaries of 

 Lake Ontario, is due also to modern fish culture. 

 The State of Maine has many ideal salmon riv- 

 ers, and a few of these fish are caught; but a thou- 

 sand times less than should be, for conditions show 

 a most discouraging state of affairs. The Kenne- 

 bec River, which is an ideal salmon stream, was 

 robbed of fish by the building of a dam at Au- 

 gusta. The Penobscot is fast going down under 

 the illegal fishing and pollution of its water from 

 various factories near its mouth. The St. Croix 

 (partly in Canada) though not so bad, is growing 

 worse. The Connecticut River has been stocked 

 several times, but when the salmon returned to 

 it, they were all caught by the netters at the 

 mouth, in direct violation of the law. So the 

 salmon angler finds that the British possessions in 

 North America undoubtedly afford the greatest 

 field for fishing in the future. 



Beginning at the south in the River St. Law- 

 rence, and farther east in Nova Scotia, which has 

 a number of small but fair streams, and following 

 the north shore of the river and of the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence up to the Strait 

 of Belle Isle, there are scores of tributary rivers 

 abounding in salmon. The Miramiche and Ne- 

 pisiguit are probably the best of those south of the 

 Restigouche in the Bay of Chaleurs. This river 

 is a large and beautiful stream, running back be- 

 tween the Province of Quebec and New Bruns- 

 wick, a distance of over two hundred miles, with 

 four large tributaries, the Mctapedia, the Upsal- 

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