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consent, brought from Washington to Newcastle in December, 

 1880. Some were planted in ponds in Manitoba, but apparently 

 without result. Pacific salmon have also been introduced into 

 the waters of the eastern provinces. In October, 1873, 20,000 

 Quinnat or spring salmon eggs were generously donated to the 

 Newcastle Hatchery by Prof. Spencer Baird ; they hatched out 

 in December, and were planted in April following. In 1874 

 a second lot was sent, and in Oct., 1875, a third consignment of 

 80,000, (of which half were sent to Tadoussac Hatchery), and in 

 1876 a further batch of 40,000, and in November a further ship- 

 ment of 80,000. Other lots of many thousands were kindly 

 given by the U.S. authorities, but the results appear to be decidedly 

 inconclusive. A fish, 15 inches long, was described bj^ Mr. 

 Wilmot as being captured near the Newcastle Hatchery in 1876 

 in the creek there and regarded as a Quinnat. "It was totally 

 unlike the ordinary grilse or smolt of the stream, and was a male 

 with matured milt," said Mr. Wilmot. and he added, " The first 

 lot of California eggs was received at this place in the fall of 

 1874 ; this salmon must, therefore, have been two years old from 

 the egg." In July, 1877, several more, it said, were taken. 

 The ofiicer in charge of the St. John River Hatchery, N. B., 

 reported in 1885 that there were grounds for regarding the 

 planting of Pacific salmon (Quinnat) in 1881, as a success. He 

 reported : ' ' Just as soon as the fishermen set their nets in 

 spring they began to capture a strange, and to them, peculiar 

 species of salmon with which they were unacquainted. 

 This gave rise to enquiries and investigation, which resulted in 

 the fact that they were California salmon, averaging some seven 

 or eight lbs in weight. Consequently they must have been some 

 of the identical salmon that were hatched in the Rapide des 

 Femmes Hatchery and put into the St. John River, four years 

 ago last March." In March and April, 1881, 35,000 young 

 California salmon had been sent to this hatchery. 



Ivobster hatching had been tried in Norway by Capt. 

 Dannevig as early as 1885, and three years later Mr. Adolph 

 Nielson commenced operations in Newfoundland. The United 

 States also carried an artificial lobster hatchery. A fine build- 

 ing, 75 feet by thirty-five feet broad, was erected at Caribou 

 Harbour, near Pictou, N. S., and began work in 1891. A 



