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The -writer says : " Within a few years, the rental of 

 the Tweed Salmon fisheries has fallen from £20,000 to 

 somewhere about £3,500. The peld of fish has fallen 

 from 150,000 to 60,000. Imagine, reader, one river 

 alone producing 150,000 fish and a revenue of £20,000 

 per annum. Who can appreciate the value of our many 

 rivers, which no part of the world can rival, especially as 

 regards the fisheries ?" 



Trending westward from Ance au Sablon, we pass the 

 following rivers, on several of which are the Hudson Bay 

 Fishery stations : — The Esquimaux, Natashquan, Min- 

 gan, St. Johns, Trout, Moisie, St. Margaret, Pentecost, 

 Trinity, Goodbout, Manitoo, St. Austin, Manacouagan, 

 Outardes, Papinachois, Betsiamites, Blanche, Portnouf, 

 Escoumiuf, Grande and Petite Bergeronnes, Misissiqui- 

 nat, St. Panoras, besides many other excellent rivers where 

 salmon are taken. The two last named, with some 

 others, where the falls are too high, afford no spawning- 

 ground for the salmon, though large quantities of sea-trout 

 are taken in those rivers every year, averaging 4 to 7 lbs. 

 each. 



Before estimating the value of the fisheries within this 

 district, I would direct attention to a favorite river of the 

 amateur fishermen of Quebec and other places, the Escou- 

 mins. A few years since it was £0 prolific, that Morin, 

 the King's Post fisherman, used to average from ] 50 to 

 200 fish each tide. Amateur fishermen would bask in 

 the sunshine of their desires, always sure of sport. 

 Twenty, thirty, forty, and as many as fifty fish have 

 been taken with a single rod in as many hours. Mr. 

 Strang, of Quebec, carried off the palm from the Escou- 



