SOME LABRADOR RIVERS 
Lawrence, for forty-nine years guardian of the 
Godbout salmon river, has written several 
chapters on the salmon in a recent interesting 
book. He says that these fish move in from 
the deeper waters of the gulf each year about 
the middle of May to the shores on both the 
north and south sides. To the west of Mingan 
the salmon follow the coast up the St. Law- 
rence River; at Mingan and below they follow 
the coast to the eastward. All are intent on 
entering the rivers to spawn, and this entrance 
begins about the roth of June and continues 
to the end of July. They remain in the estu- 
aries of the rivers for some time before fighting 
their way up the swift current and through 
the rapids and falls of the rivers. ‘The sites 
chosen for spawning, which takes place in 
September and October, are clear gravelly 
bottoms where the current is fairly swift. In 
the spring the salmon are in the best of con- 
dition, fat and silvery, but towards the end 
of October they are dark in colour and ema- 
ciated and the males show “a snout like a pig 
with an immense hook on the under jaw.” “A 
1Life and Sport on the North Shore of the Lower St. 
Lawrence and Gulf, Quebec, 1909. 
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