Sea - Trout Fishing. 



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LONG SAULT RAPIDS. 



public recognition and support. In Canada, all salmon-breeding 

 rivers are leased, inspected, guarded, and yearly reported upon by 

 a special commissioner in the Department of Marine and Fisheries. 

 Salmon rivers are also sea-trout rivers, and good sea-trout fishing 

 can only be obtained, except in streams too insignificant to be worth 

 preserving, by taking either a lease of a salmon stream or a license 

 from a lessee to fish one. There is little difficulty in making the 

 latter arrangement, both because the seasons for the two varieties 

 of fish are not concurrent and because a proprietor is only too glad 

 to be aided in thinning out the sea-trout, which are very destructive 

 to salmon ova and fry. 



Along the course of the St. Lawrence between Quebec and the 

 island of Anticosti some of the principal affluents on its north shore 

 are the Murray Bay River, the Black, the numerous branches of the 

 grand and far-reaching Saguenay, the two Bergeronnes, great and 

 little, the Escoumaine, the Saut de Mouton, the Portneuf, the Saut 

 au Cochon, th<- Laval, the Betsiamites, the Colombier, the River aux 

 Outardes, the Godebout. Trinity River, the Pentecost, the Romaine, 

 th<- Moisic, and the Mingan. Some of these are famous salmon 

 riven, held on long leases by Canadians or by our own countrymen. 

 A few are obstructed at the outlet or not far above it by dams, 

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