occur, which was planted a few years ago with this species. I have 

 reports that the planting has been a success, and quite a number of land- 

 locked salmon are being taken. It is a mountain lake, very cold, and 

 abounding with landlocked smelt, a very important point. These smelt 

 occur all of this great distance from the sea. 



I cannot understand why the landlocked salmon males should be dif- 

 ficult to distinguish from the females. The ripe males that I have seen in 

 Canada are different from the females and rather like the humpback salmon 

 of the Pacific Coast. The species is very susceptible to disease, and I 

 imagine, from the experience we have had in Canada, that it is a secondary 

 disease, because we have observed very closely our fish in the Chamcook 

 Lakes, and the fungus does not seem to affect them at all. Any fungus 

 that I observed in the ordinary sea salmon has been due to wounds, 

 either to the scraping of the skin by nets or by the males fighting and 

 injuring each other. 



Me. Chambers : I made the statement in answer to Professor Prince 

 that the fish could ascend the Grande Decharge. I must explain that there 

 is a small body of water, called the Petite Decharge, which is less violent 

 and affords different passages for the fish, especially in many places where 

 it is impossible to take the steep falls immediately below the Grande 

 Decharge. It is the Petite Decharge which the fish probably take. 



In regard to landlocked salmon, quite a serious thing is occurring now 

 in our lakes through action of the Dominion authorities, in giving us a 

 few hundred thousand sea salmon eggs each year. The Province of 

 Quebec is hatching the eggs and planting them in inland waters, whence 

 they do not descend into the sea at all, and so I do not believe there is 

 any chance that these fish breed. They have been taken up to five to seven 

 pounds, and in some cases even more. In Lake Memphremagog, where they 

 are planted, a few from five to seven pounds are taken almost every 

 summer. 



