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There is a valuable salmon fishery near the entrance to this 

 river, at Brittain's Point, (Alwington Manor,) where from 1500 to 

 2000 salmon have been taken annually, for a long succession of 

 years. 



The Jemseg is a narrow, deep channel, which connects the 

 Grand Lake with the Eiver Saint John ; its entrance is three 

 miles above Gagetown, flowing in from the eastward. Salmon 

 pass through the Grand Lake, in order to ascend the Salmon and 

 Gaspereau Rivers, at its eastern extremity. The Gaspereau 

 River is now barred at its very entrance by a mill-dam, which 

 wholly excludes fish from that river. The Salmon ' River was 

 also barred by a dam for some years ; but this was swept away 

 by a flood, about seven years ago, and salmon have returned to 

 the river in large numbers, as it is a favourite breeding place. 

 They are, however, poached and destroyed in every way, through- 

 out the entire season, both by Indians and lumbermen, in every 

 part of this fine stream, up to the Richibucto portage, and even 

 beyond it. 



The Nashwaak flows into the Saint John from the eastward, 

 nearly opposite the City of Predericton. Salmon formerly as- 

 cended this river, for forty miles or more, but are now prevented 

 by the substantial mill-dam which crosses the river, from bank to 

 bank, about three miles from its mouth. From the vigour with 

 which the salmon have been persecuted below the dam, while 

 struggling to ascend, very few are now taken in the river, and 

 shortly they will cease entirely to frequent its bright and swift- 

 flowing waters. 



Mr. Edward Sydney Dyer, who resides at Calais, stated that 

 his father's residence was near the Salmon Falls ; he was born 

 there, and resided beside those falls until after he attained to 

 manhood. About thirty years since, salmon were exceedingly 

 abundant in the St. Croix ; the average catch at the Salmon 

 Falls was 200 salmon per day, for three months in each season. 



The Tobique is a magnificent river, which waters a wide ex- 

 tent of country, east of the Saint John. A mill-dam which was 

 erected at the Red Rapids, about fourteen miles above its mouth 



