PART III. 

 FISHES. 



CHAPTER IX. 



Salmon ; its Decadence — Object of my Excursion to the Schoodic Lakes- 

 Forest Scenery — Incidents of Travel — Maine and its Liquor Laws — ■ 

 Lewey's and Long Lakes — Silvery Salmon Trout — Fly Pest — Trout 

 Fishing— Description of the Silvery Salmon Trout — Grand Lake ; its 

 Scenery — Glacial Erosion — Parasites in Fishes — Effects of Light on 

 Coloration of Fishes — Sea Trouts of Europe and America. 



THE extermination of the land animals, water birds, and 

 shell fishes before noticed, contrasts, in the modes by 

 which they have disappeared, with that of the salmon, 

 which used to abound from the frozen region to the 40th 

 parallel of latitude ; now it is rarely met with south of 

 44 ; but although it has been long known, there are several 

 interesting features connected with, its natural history and- 

 its connections with northern forms to be worked out. The 

 chief migratory movements of the fish in New Brunswick 

 waters are such as usually obtain elsewhere, a good deal 

 depending on the breaking up of the ice. The spawning 

 season is over by the beginning of November, when the 

 majority make a rush for the sea. Parr are common in April 

 and May in the rivers, and its smalt are taken in vast numbers 

 by fly and bait towards the end of August, when, like the 

 former, they are possibly on their way to the sea. No doubt, 

 however, although the chief runs of fish towards the sea are in 



