44 FISH-CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
this was the average weight of those taken by other parties in 
each of the years 1864 and 1865. 
In 1867, I personally visited the fishing ground and know that 
the size of the fish had not materially changed since 1858. The 
maximum was then believed to be four or five pounds, but the 
capture of so large specimens was extremely rare. The autumn 
weight may have been a little above that of June, (which corre- 
sponds to a length of 16% inches) but did not exceed 1% lbs. 
In 1875-6, the average weight of some hundreds of males taken 
at the spawning season was 1.6 lbs. and 1.8 Ibs respectively, and 
of the females 1.9 lbs. each year. In 1878, the males averaged 
2.3 lbs. and the females 2.2 lbs. 
In 1882, the males and females weighed respectively 3.1 and 
3.08 pounds; in 1883, 3.2 and 3.0 pounds. There has been acor- 
responding, but perhaps not equal augmentation in the size of 
the fish caught in May and June; seventy salmon taken in May, 
1883, averaged 2.7 lbs., a little more than double the weight of 
Mr. Jewell’s fish of 1865. Accompanying this increase in size, 
we have found a corresponding improvement in the fecundity 
of the salmon. The eggs are no larger, but nearly twice as 
many are now obtained from a single fish. 
These figures apply only to the salmon of Grand lake stream. 
In other parts of the Schoodic waters the fish are of various sizes 
—some larger and some smaller than those described. At Dob- 
sis stream, in the spring of 1872, a score of Mr. Jewell’s shows 
that twenty-six fish taken below the dam in water communicat- 
ing with Pocumpus lake, averaged 1 4-10 pounds, while eighteen 
taken above the dam, in the waters of the Dobsis lake averaged 
2 6-10 lbs. In after years this distinction was maintained and in_ 
deed emphasized. Inthe Dobsis lake in 1876, they were about 
as heavy as they are now in Grand lake.- In West Musquash 
lake they are larger than in either of the above. In the lakes of 
the east branch of the Saint Croix (the Chepedneck lakes) they 
are generally larger than in any of the waters of the west 
branch, with the possible exception of West Musquash, and 
there has been known a single specimen of 10% pounds. In 
Pleasant lake, on the west branch, are the smallest specimens of 
all the Schoodic region. In February, 1883, 1 obtained thirteen 
