APPENDIX VI. 



SALMON-BREEDING ESTABLISHMENT ON THE 

 MIRIMICHI. 



PREVIOUS to 1868 the few salmon eggs that had come 

 into the United States to stock its depleted streams 

 were obtained at random, and in quantities totally inad- 

 equate to the requirements of the great American salmon 

 rivers. It was evident that something must be done on a 

 more extended scale to carry out the now rapidly forming 

 purpose of restoring the salmon in those rivers ; and in 

 the spring of 1868 the writer conceived the idea of organiz- 

 ing a large salmon-breeding establishment on one of the 

 New Brunswick rivers, all of which are famous for the vast 

 quantities of salmon which they contain. 



The Mirimichi was chosen, on account of its accessi- 

 bility and its capacity for supplying parent fish in abun- 

 dance. On the farm of Mr. Joseph Goodfellow, eight miles 

 above Newcastle, on the river, was found a very large 

 even-flowing spring and a spring brook running within a 

 few feet of it, and both within sixty rods of the river it- 

 self. A large hatching house, one hundred feet by twenty- 

 seven, was built of three-inch deals, just below the spring. 

 The house was provided with nearly an eighth of a mile 

 of hatching troughs laid in rows parallel with its length. 

 A pond, having an area of about an acre, was built below 

 the house. This was connected with the river by a flume. 

 The spring water and brook water were turned through 

 the house, thence into the pond, and thence into the 

 river. 



