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There are plenty of cod in Hudson Strait, and no doubt they will 

 shortly find their way into the Bay also. In any of the inlets of 

 Ungava Bay a schooner might be loaded in a few days. This 

 fishery is exceedingly valuable, and steps should be taken to protect 

 it. Now that it is known that cod are so plentiful in that quarter 

 fishing vessels will not be long in rounding the Cape, and skirting 

 the shores of Ungava in quest of these valuable fish. 



AH things considered, I think the salmon is destined to become 

 the most valuable fishery of the Hudson's Bay region. 



The Rev. Mr. Cook, a clever naturalist, has said that the salmon 

 is the " king of British river fish." He is right ; but this does not go 

 far enough. The 

 trout must be in- 

 cluded. The sal- 

 mon is, indeed, a 

 beautiful fish; "the 

 silvery sheen of its 

 glittering scales, its 

 wonderful tact and 

 activity, affording 

 magnificent sport 

 to the angler, the 

 interesting nature 

 of its life from the 

 egg to full matu- 

 rity, and last, but not least, for the exquisite flavour and nutritive 

 character of its flesh ;" for these reasons is the salmon much sought 

 after. 



Here is a sort of lament of the salmon lover : — " In former days, 

 before civilization had substituted man and his dwellings for the 

 broad meadows and their furred and feathered inmates, the salmon 

 was found in many an English river. Now, however, there are but 

 few streams where this splendid fish can be seen ; for in the greater 

 number of British rivers the water has been so defiled by human 

 agency that the fastidious salmon will not suffer itself to be poisoned 



A SALMON. 



