474 Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinburgh. 
Miramichi and District. 
Table showing the Yield of Salmon and Output of Fry in the Miramichi 
River and District during a period of Years. ( a ) 
Year. 
Yield in lbs. 
Average. 
Output of Fry. 
Average. 
1874 . 
60,000 
1875 . 
(6) 1,055,014 
150,000 
• • • 
1876 . 
961,951 
49,000 
1877 . 
714,913 
280,000 
1878 . 
677,356 
852,308-2 
590,000 
ca. 270,000 (c) 
1879 . 
412,843 
1,025,000 
1880 . 
225,165 
785,000 
1881 . 
199,698 
770,000 
• • • 
1882 . 
393,494 
307,800 
[d) 640,000 
805,000 
1883 . 
231,330 
(d) 925,000 
1884 . 
375,370 
795,000 
1885 . 
514,443 
900,000 
1886 . 
333,993 
363,784 
945,000 
891,250 
1887 . 
359,735 
880,000 
... 
1888* . 
358,071 
1,290,000 
1889 . 
275,241 
850,000 
1890 . 
382,944 
343,997 ’3 
1,062,000 
1, 020,500 
1891 . 
439,526 
783,000 
1892 . 
360,020 
1,310,000 
1893 . 
756,637 
1,275,000 
1894 . 
454,900 
502, 770 "2 
1,250,000 
1,154,500 
1895 . 
395,750 1 
1,200,000 
• . • 
1896 . 
687,210 1 
1,330,000 
1897 . 
349,100 
1,558,000 
1898 . 
283,150 
428,’ 802 -2 
1,557,000 i 
1,411,250 
(a) This table contains the returns for the county of Northumberland, 
the coastline of which coincides with the limits of Miramichi Bay. 
(J) Barrels of salmon at 300 lbs. per barrel fresh fish. 
(c) Details of distribution for years 1874-78 not very clear. 
(d) Estimated ; no details of distribution have been discovered for these 
years. 
The Ristigouche, Saguenay, and Miramichi may be grouped 
together. They all point to the same result as the Fraser — the 
presence of other agencies which must have influenced the yield, 
quite independently of the question whether artificial culture has 
done so or not. 
Ristigouche. — Reference to note b will show that there was an in- 
creased average output of about seven hundred thousand fry in the 
Ristigouche during the period ending 1882. Professor Metzger (see 
Royal Commission on Salmon Fisheries, 1902, Report , part ii., section 
i., page 114) has calculated that 3100 per million of the fry planted 
return and are captured. This should give an increase of the 
