Sea -Trout Fishing. 



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MAP OF SOME SEA-TROUT WATERS. 



Sea-trout are found in both hemispheres in the northern belt of 

 the north temperate zone. Neither to Asia nor to South America 

 are they known to resort. Their geographical distribution seems 

 marked in longitude by the Nqrway border of Europe and the 

 western coast of our own country. Their range northward is 

 probably limited only by such conditions as exclude the possibility 

 of life. In the late Polar expedition, Dr. Moss succeeded in capt- 

 uring a small salmonoid inhabiting fresh-water lakes as far north as 

 82 40'. Along the whole coast of Labrador and the Dominion, 

 and up the St. Lawrence River nearly to Quebec, they abound. 



Nor is saltness of their medium essential to life, so long as they 

 find an opportunity for migration to and from the depths. In Lake 

 Superior and the streams flowing into it on the northern shore, they 

 are plentiful at the usual seasons. 



While in the sea, anadromous fishes are, of course, lost to 

 observation ; but it can hardly be supposed that they rove aim- 



ly through it, or resort to very great depths or very great 



