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further to make it satisfactory, assuming that the earlier statistics 
could be sufficiently verified. He has also collected the yields of 
several rivers far removed from the districts in which there has 
Grand River and Gasp£ Divisions. 
Table showing the Yield of Salmon and Output of Fry during a 
period of Years in the Divisions of Grand River and Gaspe. (a) 
Year. 
Grand River Division. 
Gaspe Division. 
Yield in lbs. 
(c) 
Average. 
Yield in lbs. 
Average. 
Output of Fry. 
(6) 
Average. 
1880 . 
11,936 
31,651 
840,000 
1881 . 
5,738 
27,132 
37,478 
500,000 
(d) 530,000 
1882 . 
10,275 
9,3161 
32*087 
623,300 
1883 . 
7,295 
94,904 
(d) 520,000 
1884 . 
6 459 
47,767 
77,870 
850,000 
1885 . 
6,785 
290,000 
1886 . 
11,186 
7,9311 
73,921 
73,615*2 
576,000 
559,000 
1887 . 
15,285 
96,070 
630.000 
800.000 
1888 . 
19,610 
83,325 
1889 . 
16,008 
75,023 
450,000 
1890 . 
16,600 
16,875*3 
46,456 
75,218*2 
806,000 
671*500 
1891 . 
7,000 
53,785 
1,000,000 
1892 . 
12,500 
54,727 
965,000 
1893 . 
(e) 42,100 
46,667 
655,000 
1894 . 
39,400 
25,250 
76,065 
57,811 
850,000 
867^500 
1895 . 
34,650 
49,675 
56,623 
675,000 
1896 . 
119,171 
750,000 
1897 . 
33,313 
58,720 
1,100,000 
841,600 
1898 . 
55,500 
43 284-2 
116,530 
87,761 
(a) Prior to 1890 the returns for this portion of the coast are given as from 
one district ; later the coast is divided into two districts, and the returns appear 
separately. In the statistics the returns for each station are also given 
separately during the whole period. The stations have been divided as cor- 
rectly as possible into those which, since 1890, have been classed under the 
heading “Gaspe sub-division,” and into those which from the same date 
have been returned as forming the “Grand River sub-division,” and the 
division thus made has been carried backwards to the year 1880. In this way 
it is hoped the yields of the Gaspe and Grand sub-divisions, prior to 1890, 
have been correctly attained. 
(b) Pisciculture commenced on these rivers in the year 1875. Prior to 
1880 ca. 300,000 fry were planted in Grand and Grand Pabos Rivers. In 
1880, 50,000 were put into Grand River, and 40,000 into Grand Pabos 
River ; in 1884, 9000 into Grand River. Prior to 1880, about 3,000,000 fry 
seem to have been freed in the Gaspe division. 
(c) Barrels of salmon have been calculated at 300 lbs. fresh fish, C.F.R. 
1897, p. 148. 
(d) Estimated, as the details of distribution for these years have not been 
found. 
(e) The figure 25,600 lbs. is also given for this year. 
