GAME FISH 25 



It is supposed that the grilse are three or 

 four years old and that their rate of growth 

 after that period is from four to six pounds 

 a year. 



A salmon was caught at West Baldwins 

 half a mile from Channel Head, Newfound- 

 land, by Louis Sheaves on June 5, 1919, 

 with a silver tag attached to its dorsal fin 

 marked A1124. The fish when caught 

 measured 40 inches in length, 23 inches in 

 girth and weighed 26 pounds. R. Mosdell, 

 the station master at Port aux Basques, 

 obtained the fin tag and submitted it to 

 the Game and Inland Fisheries Board for 

 inquiry as to where the fish had been lib- 

 erated. 



On July 15 he received a message from 

 the Game Board stating that the fish was 

 liberated from the salmon hatchery at Mar- 

 garie, Nova Scotia, November, 1917; at 

 that time it measured 34 inches in length and 

 weighed 12 pounds. 



This dislodges the theory that salmon 

 always frequent the same water yearly, and 



