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Title: With fly-rod and camera
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908
Subjects: Fishing Fishing
Publisher: New York, Forest and Stream Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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d November. After being manipulated they are setat liberty again, without any loss worthy of mention. At these three establishmentsthe cost of each fish, including their guardianship in the pens throughout the seasons,averaged $2.75, and the eggs ranged at about 44 cents per thousand. This system,after several years of practical application, has proved to be the most satisfactoryfrom every point of view in which it may be considered, and ought to be connectedwith the working of every hatchery in the Dominion where circumstances will fairlyadmit of its application. The system pursued at the Sydney, Bedford, St. John and Miramichi hatch-eries to secure parent salmon for breeding purposes, is to take them with nets atthe spawning time or just previous to it. While this method proved satisfactory,both as regards the number of fish captured and the quota of eggs obtained forthe Sydney and Miramichi hatcheries, the result for the Bedford and St. John Riverhatcheries was very unsatisfactory.
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372 With Fly-Rod and Camera. pass down to the spawning beds, they cannot pass out.They are as securely encaged as a rat in a wire trap,and there they remain until the spawn is taken. The Schoodic hatchery is the most favorably lo-cated of any I have seen, and the fish are in perfectcondition when the eo-grs are taken.* o o * The following- interesting- account of the operations at the Schoodic hatcheryis furnished me by Mr. W. T. Buck, the official who supervised the work whenI visited it: Schoodic salmon are captured at Grand Lake Stream, Me., in net traps seton the spawning beds. The season during which the females lay their eggs, de-pending probably on temperature, varies in different years, but may be expected be-tween the 20th of October and the 20th of November. The males come first tothe spawning grounds, the proportion of females gradually increasing until they faroutnumber the males in the later catches of the season. The salmon run into the traps mostly during the night. Eac

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