SOME LABRADOR RIVERS 
nearly all by salmon, and although these 
southern rivers are leased by sportsmen for 
fly-fishing, the majority of the salmon are 
caught not for sport but as a business in nets. 
For some distance to the east of Seven Islands 
there is a salmon-net at every mile mark along 
the sandy shore. At the Moisie River a large 
salmon-fishery is in operation. At Mingan 
the Hudson’s Bay Company sets several nets, 
the old salmon-fisher with whom we stayed had 
four or five more along the beach and at the 
island opposite, and two Gaspé men, camped 
at the mouth of the Mingan River, set six or 
seven more. Nets at the mouths of rivers are 
allowed if they do not extend more than one 
third of the way across. With all these nets to 
intercept the salmon on their way up the Mingan 
River to spawn it would seem as if few would 
escape, yet the owner of the river was just 
beginning his fly-fishing season as we left, and 
the fishing was generally good in the pools below 
the falls. We were told that at times the falls 
were black in places with the fish, tirelessly 
trying again and again to surmount them. 
We saw none there on June 21st — but it was 
still rather early in the season. 
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