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the head of the tide and in close proximity to one another, 

 bar the ascent of the salmon to their spawning-grounds. 

 It is true that the law directs that the nets be raised from 

 Saturday evening till Monday morning. How well this 

 law is observed I will not say, but of the many fish I saw 

 which had been taken with the fly on the Restigouche 

 River during June and July, 1885, hardly more than one 

 in ten was free from wounds unmistakably due to the 

 meshes of the nets. Since the efforts of the Government 

 to restock and increase the supply of salmon are paid for 

 from the taxes of the people at large, it would seem to an 

 outsider that they had some claim to consideration, and 

 that the wish — a general wish, as it appeared to me — that 

 the product of this expenditure should be marketed in the 

 dearest rather than in the very cheapest market, and so 

 as to benefit the many rather than the few, was not un- 

 reasonable. It would certainly seem that if the netters 

 were compelled to raise their nets for another twenty-four 

 hours during the middle of the week, they would even 



then have more than the lion's share of the fishinff. The 



' . . . 



netters receive from six to ten cents a pound for the fish 



at the freezer. The average cost to the angler in money 

 disbursed within the Dominion for every pound he hopes 

 to take — ^to say nothing of what he really does kill — far 

 exceeds this. The large annual income in ready cash re- 

 ceived by the people of the State of Maine from visiting 

 sportsmen, furnishes solid food for thought in this con- 

 nection. 



Should any reader find the following list of value, he 

 should join me in thanking Mr. J. W. Skelton, of Mont- 

 real (without whose patient and persistent cooperation 



