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Trail and Camp-Fire 



The Labrador Peninsula may not contain 

 the quantity and variety of big and feathered 

 game found in the west and northwest por- 

 tions of the continent, but no apologies are 

 needed for its game fish, which are unrivalled 

 anywhere. 



The salmon fishing of the rivers flowing 

 into the Gulf of St. Lawrence on its north 

 side is famous the world over, while the land- 

 locked salmon, lake and brook trout of the 

 interior waters afford sport that cannot be 

 surpassed. 



The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is found 

 in all the rivers from the Saguenay eastward 

 to the Strait of Belle Isle, thence northward 

 along the Atlantic coast to Hudson Strait, and 

 for about loo miles down the east coast of 

 Hudson Bay. The fishing of the Gulf is too 

 well known to require any comment here, and 

 I will confine my remarks to the salmon fish- 

 ing of the eastern and northern rivers. The 

 Atlantic coast under the jurisdiction of the 

 government of Newfoundland has never been 

 ofificially protected, and the cod fishermen 

 have been allowed to use trap nets indiscrim- 

 inately, the result being the almost total ruin 

 of the salmon fishery, which only a few years 



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