vania hatched and distributed a great many landlocked salmon fry without 

 any apparent results. A few years ago several ardent fishermen from 

 the Johnstown region came back from a fishing trip to Maine imbued 

 with the idea that landlocked salmon were the particular fish for Penn- 

 sylvania waters. The Department discouraged them and cited the experi- 

 ments years before. But they were persistent and the Department hatched 

 some eggs which they purchased. The fry were planted in ponds in 

 Cambria County after being held about two months in the hatching 

 troughs. About two years later I received from one of these gentlemen 

 two salmon 14 inches long taken out of the pond. We have been putting 

 in about 40,000 for three years now. Under the circumstances it does 

 not appear to be money well expended to endeavor to stock the ponds 

 of Pennsylvania with landlocked salmon ; the stocking which these parties 

 have had us do for them merely results in the catching of 18 to 20 fish a year 

 from an artificial pond built iipon a stream, with a maximum depth of 

 about 30 feet, and it seems to me that the annual catch does not warrant 

 much expenditure along that line. 



Mr. Leach : It is a question whether the salmon run down stream ; 

 they may do so in search of food or to spawn. They go down in the fall 

 of the year but I do not know whether it is a well-defined movement. 

 They get into the current and may drift over the falls of Grand Lake 

 stream in search of spawning grounds; however not all fish passing over 

 the falls are lost, but it is so serious that the State of Maine is consider- 

 ing the screening of the outlet of Grand Lake Stream. 



Dr. Edward E. Prince, Ottawa, Canada : The Department of Fisheries 

 in Ottawa tried year after year to secure adequate supplies of landlocked 

 salmon from the Chamcook Lakes in New Brunswick. I. myself, took 

 charge of operations there in 1904, and I found that the salmon were 

 migrating from the lower to the upper lakes. We secured our best catch 

 of parent fish and take of eggs in the narrow connecting stream. There 

 were migratory movements, at times up, and I suppose at some other time 

 in the year they must descend as the salmon can go down to the sea 

 if they wish. There is no absolute barrier. There is a very swift, short 

 stream down to Passamaquoddy Bay, but I have not heard of any fish 

 descending to salt water. Mr. E. T. D. Chambers, who devoted a great 

 deal of attention to the landlocked salmon of Quebec, is here and I think 

 perhaps he may know whether the salmon descend to Lake St. John. 

 Are they ever known to go from the Grande Decharge? 



Mr. E. T. D. Chambers, Quebec. Canada : It is reported that they go 

 almost as far as the heaviest of the rapids. There is no reason why they 

 should not, if they desire to do so. 



Dr. Prince : That is a most remarkable case. Lake St. John is up the 

 great Saguenay River, one of the most remarkable rivers in Canada. The 

 discharge from Lake St. John into the Saguenay is a cascade of the most 

 gigantic and terrific character. Mr. Chambers thinks that these Ouananiche. 

 as we call them, can reascend. They are a very strong swimming fish, of 

 course, but the Grande Dechax-ge is a terrific cascade. 



We have had our diflSculties in Canada in trying to obtain adequate 

 supplies of eggs. There is a lake near Ottawa, in what is called the 

 Gatineau region. 800 miles from the regions where landlocked salmon 



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