18 The American Sahnon-fisherman. 



LIST OF THE SALMON-BIVEBS OF CANADA. 



It all the salmon-rivers of Canada from the Straits of 

 Belle Isle to the Jacques Cartier ahove Quebec, including 

 New Brunswick, are not included in the following list, it 

 is certainly through no lack of conscientious effort to that 

 end on my part. Its preparation was begun some time 

 before a word of this book was written. It is now finished 

 after every other part is in the hands of the printer. 

 Every available source of information has been exhausted 

 in the endeavor to include all rivers which produce salmon, 

 and to exclude all that do not ; also to intimate, as far as 

 possible, the condition of each river at the beginning of 

 the season of 1886. Besides remarks, a system of nota- 

 tion has been employed. Three asterisks indicate a river 

 of the first merit, a lesser number those of inferior grade, 

 while the absence of any mark of the kind is intended to 

 convey the meaning that the stream is of little worth. 

 The rivers of Nova Scotia, those flowing into the Bay of 

 Fundy from New Brunswick, and the tributaries of the 

 St. John, are not included in this system of notation, my 

 information not being sufficient to justify me in so doing. 



Undoubtedly the efforts of the Dominion Government 

 to restock those streams which have become depleted, and 

 to increase the supply of those which are now productive, 

 will eventually in some measure produce the desired 

 effect. Those who wish well to Canada would, however, 

 feel much more sanguine of this result, if the mouths of 

 at least many of its salmon-rivers were less cruelly netted. 

 Indeed, the casual observer would think any escape im- 

 possible from the labyrinths of nets, which, for miles below 



