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was almost a failure, scarcely half as many fish having 

 been taken as during the preceding year. It was the 

 same with the salmon and the capelin. 



The " rock cod," or duffy, as it is termed by the fisher- 

 men, which they consider less valuable than the deep 

 water cod, swarms about the boats when the fisherman 

 are seining the capelin, and are seen snapping them up. 



Gadus ogac ^xoh'axd&on. Greenland codfish. (Stearns.) 



Merlucius vulgaris Fleming ? I was told by a fisher- 

 man that he had taken but one hake during a period of 

 forty summers spent on this coast. He had never seen 

 a haddock on this coast. Both of these species are 

 abundant at the mouth of the St. Lawrence in Bay 

 Chaleur. 



Brosmius fiavescens Lesueur ? A "cusk" was caught 

 in eighty fathoms in the Strait of Belle Isle. The speci- 

 men is in the Collection of the Lyceum of Natural His- 

 tory, Williams College. 



Salmo salar Linn. Owing to the great lowerijig of 

 the climate by the drift ice, the salmon fishery was al- 

 most a failure this season. The fishery had just begun 

 at Henley Harbor, opposite Belle Isle, on the 28th of 

 June, 1864. At Square Island they were not netted be- 

 fore the 1 2th af July ; here they disappear usually about 

 the 15th of August. July 23d they had not appeared at 

 this point. At Thomas Bay, near Cape Harrison, they 

 appeared on the 2 2d of July. At this place the salmon 

 was said to disappear about the 20th of .August. At 

 Groswater Bay, (Hamilton Inlet), only two hundred 

 tierces were taken during the whole season, when usually 

 iive tfrnes that number are caught. 



The salmon remains upon the coast at the mouth of 



