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■one hundred and ten fish, averaging more than twenty-two pounds. This 
was by Mr. Thomas Reynolds, who caught in the same river a fish of 
forty-seven pounds, the largest ever killed in Gaspe with a fly. In the 
Penobscot forty-pounders have occasionally been taken, but not more than 
one out of a thousand weighs thirty, and the common size is from ten to 
twelve pounds. A fish two feet long would weigh about six pounds ; one 
of thirty inches, nine or ten ; one of three feet, sixteen to seventeen ; and 
one four feet long, nearly fifty. A score of twenty-two day’s fishing, with 
four rods, in the Godbout, in June and July, 1865, foots up four hundred 
and seventy-eight fish, averaging nine and three-quarters pounds. 
In Great Britain, by systematic culture and protection, the salmon fishery 
has been made one of the most important aquatic industries. The rental of 
the privileges on three salmon rivers, the Tay, the Spey, and the Tweed, 
amounted in 1873 to nearly $200,000 ; and in this year 3,800,000 pounds 
■of salmon, worth at least $1,350,000 were brought to London markets, 
2,580,000 pounds coming from Scotland alone. 
The salmon rivers of North America may be made to yield a harvest 
much richer than this; those of Maine alone are probably as numerous 
and well adapted for the purpose as those of Scotland, which are valued 
at ^250,000 a year, those of England being placed at ^100,000, and of 
Ireland at ^400,000. 
Walton and all his disciples have called the Salmon the “King of Fresh 
Water Fishes.” Whole libraries have been written, about his Majesty, 
and the adventures of the regicides who show their admiration of him by 
killing him as often as they can. Salmon fishery, from the technical stand¬ 
point, may not here be discussed, and the reader is respectfully referred to 
the writings of Hallock, Scrope Roosevelt, Harris, Dawson, Herbert, 
Pennell, Francis and Buckland, and others, mighty with the rod and facile 
with the pen. 
