SOME LABRADOR RIVERS 
ways are avoided by spawning salmon, while 
rivers, like the Manitou, with falls of such a 
size that the fish are unable to ascend them, al- 
though there is much good spawning ground 
above, are also avoided. Eventually these 
rivers will be treated as are siinilar rivers in 
Norway, where fish ladders are built enabling 
the fish to pass by the falls. 
Comeau gives some interesting figures show- 
ing that contrary to the usual belief the catch 
of salmon has increased over thirty per cent. 
of late years. Thus the average yearly catch 
of salmon for the whole of the Province of 
Quebec for the years 1896, ’97, 98 was 685,000 
pounds, for 1906, ’o7, ’o8 over ane million 
pounds. He also presents some records of 
fly-fishing on the St. John and Moisie Rivers. 
During the season of 1871, five sportsmen be- 
tween June 23d and July 18th caught with 
the fly 416 salmon having a total weight of 
4,755 lbs.; the largest fish weighed 26 lbs. 
In 1869 the result of 16 days’ fishing with the 
fly by one man on the Moisie was 138 salmon 
weighing 2,413 lbs., or an average of nearly 
17 1-2 Ibs.; the largest fish weighed 37 lbs. In 
1871 the records of three rods in the Moisie was 
225 
