CHAPTER II 



WHERE TO BE FOUND 



WHEN the salmon, strong, active, and brilliant 

 in his silvery armor feels the impulse to revisit 

 his native river, he would certainly abandon the 

 intention could he have any idea of what lay 

 before him in the way of nets along the shore he 

 coasts, and far up the channel of the river he is 

 to ascend in order to reach his birthplace. These 

 nets on all accessible streams have, with the 

 drifters, spearers, and other employers of illegal 

 methods of destruction, practically exterminated 

 the salmon from the many excellent rivers of the 

 Atlantic coast of the United States; and the 

 same causes are in active operation in such 

 Canadian rivers as fish can be shipped away 

 from at a profit. The various reports of the 

 Commissioners of Fish and Game for the state 

 of Maine show a most discouraging state of 

 affairs so far as salmon are concerned. For 

 instance, the Kennebec River, an ideal salmon 

 stream, was divested of fish by the building of 



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