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which are just being received, conclude that, generally 

 speaking, the present condition of salmon angling is 

 good. There may be in some streams a slight 

 falling-off in sport, occasioned by the lumbering 

 business, where logs are driven over the pools ; but, 

 under normal conditions, it is considered by those 

 authorities that the angling is still very good in 

 almost every one of the Quebec salmon rivers, especi- 

 ally on the north shore of the St. Lawrence, where 

 all the rivers are reported as being in as good a 

 condition as they were ever known to be. 



The Provincial Commissioner for New Brunswick 

 regards the subject as one requiring more thorough 

 treatment than the limitations of a letter admit, in 

 order to convey a full understanding of it. He says, 

 however, that if the term " years ago " means a half 

 century ago, it must be said that the angling condi- 

 tions are not as good in some of the New Brunswick 

 rivers now as then, while they are fully maintained 

 in others. During the last ten years, however, the 

 salmon angling has been fully maintained. 



In the fifty-years period nets on the coast and in 

 the semi-tidal waters have so increased as to make it 

 a matter for wonder that any appreciable number of 

 salmon could escape them, and ascend for spawning 

 purposes during the open season ; but this has been 

 partially offset by the improved character and fairly 

 faithful enforcement of regulations against destruc- 

 tive methods of fishing more especially by artificial 

 culture of salmon. 



The records of the salmon-angling clubs, he adds, 



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