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lines. But good luck does not always reward the patient toiler, 
and many a vessel has often returned home without a fare. 
After the cod-fishing is over, come the mackerel and the 
herring. Herring are taken with seines; mackerel with both 
seine and hook; with the seine early in the season, and later 
with the hook. i 
The migrations of mackerel are very irregular, and cannot be 
depended on. They will visit certain localities one season, and 
then disappear for several years together. But they are always 
to be found in the vicinity of the Magdalen Islands, in the Gulf 
of St. Lawrence, which appears to be one of their favorite spawn- 
ing-grounds. 
The yield of the salmon-fishery of Labrador is about eighteen 
hundred barrels per year. 
Halibut are found in great abundance along the whole north 
coast, but are seldom fished for except by American vessels. 
They generally sell in the States at from fifteen to twenty cents 
a pound, while in Canadian markets they are so little valued as 
to seldom realize more than $6 per_barrel. 
There is good trout-fishing all along the Labrador coast, and 
I have myself taken a great many heavy fish with fly in the 
months of June and July. 
Ido not know that J have communicated anything new to 
the gentlemen of this Association, many of whom must know 
far more than I do about my subject ; but never having seen any 
descriptive paper published giving an inside view of the Labra- 
dor fisheries, excepting one written many years ago by myself, I 
thought I would venture to introduce the subject here. I trust 
my recital has proved interesting, if not new. 
The Vice-President, Mr. PaGe, read the following letters: 
RocuestTer, N. Y., Feb. 19, 1880. 
FRIEND PHInNEY—Yours of the 17th is received. In regard to 
the land-locked salmon, the reason I gave my opinion that they 
would not do well in Otsego Lake is because in the waters they 
inhabit in Maine the lakes are fed by large streams flowing 
directly into them, into which they go up to cast their spawn, 
