SECRETS OF THE SALMON 



ticed scales in many instances when the fish went 

 to sea in November or December and returned in 

 June, and did the same thing the following year. 

 Naturally these fish are stunted, and such rivers 

 only rarely contain large fish. They usually run 

 from six to ten pounds. On the west coast, how- 

 ever, the bays do not furnish as much food, and 

 more fish leave and cruise in the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence. These fish stay out longer and are, 

 therefore, larger in general, although it is rare 

 to see many fish of over twenty to twenty-five 

 poimds. 



The rivers of New Bnmswick emptying into 

 the Bay of Chaleur show types of salmon having 

 different habits when they go to sea. The Cas- 

 copedia fish are nearly all large, from twenty to 

 fifty pounds. These fish seem to winter off the 

 south coast of New Foundland in about four hun- 

 dred feet of water, where they have been caught 

 in considerable numbers with trawl lines. They 

 only return every few years to spawn and are, 

 therefore, all large. In the Restigouche both 

 types of fish are seen, and evidently some of them 

 stay comparatively near the mouth of the river 

 and find their food there, while others stay further 

 away and get a heavier growth. It is rather 



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