Consisting of the following articles compiled from the Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 1881-1894:
Some Results of the Artificial Propagation of Maine and California Salmon in New England and Canada, Recorded in the Years 1879 and 1880
Sketch of the Penobscot Salmon-Breeding Establishment (1883)
Penning of Salmon in Order to Secure Their Eggs (1884)
Memoranda Relative to Inclosures for the Confinement of Salmon Drawn from Experience at Bucksport, Penobscot River, Maine (1884)
Report on the Schoodic Salmon Work of 1884-85
Methods Employed at Craig Brook Station in Rearing Young Salmonid Fishes (1893)
Notes on the Capture of Atlantic Salmon at Sea and in the Coast Waters of the Eastern States (1894)
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SAINT STEPHEN, N. B., DOMINION OF CANADA.
Prof. SPENCER F. BAIRD, U. S. Commissioner Fish and Fisheries:
SIR: I think it has been clearly demonstrated in this Dominion that by artificial propagation and a fair amount of protection, all natural salmon rivers may be kept thoroughly stocked with this fish, and rivers that have been depleted, through any cause, brought back to their former excellence.
I would instance the river Restigouche in support of the above statement.
This river, which empties into the Bay of Chaleur, is now, and always has been, the foremost salmon river in New Brunswick, both as to size and number of fish. It has not a dam or obstruction to the free passage of fish from its mouth to its source, yet up to 1868 and 1869 the numbers of salmon had constantly decreased. This, no doubt, was occasioned by excessive netting at the mouth, and spearing the fish during the summer in the pools; natural production was not able to keep up with this waste.
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