. Reports on the sea and river fisheries of New Brunswick [microform]. Fisheries; Fisheries; Fishes; Pêches; Pêches; Poissons. Within the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. 55 s&lmonare caught all along the coast, there being nets at almost every lot. TJiere were about 200 barrels of salmon taken from Kouchibouguac beaches to Richibucto Head, during the season of 1849 ; these were all caught outside, by sea fishing, as it may be termed. There is no regulation for this fishery; the season is from the 1st June to 15th August, after which the salmon are supposed to enter tho .rivers, as no more are take
. Reports on the sea and river fisheries of New Brunswick [microform]. Fisheries; Fisheries; Fishes; Pêches; Pêches; Poissons. Within the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. 55 s&lmonare caught all along the coast, there being nets at almost every lot. TJiere were about 200 barrels of salmon taken from Kouchibouguac beaches to Richibucto Head, during the season of 1849 ; these were all caught outside, by sea fishing, as it may be termed. There is no regulation for this fishery; the season is from the 1st June to 15th August, after which the salmon are supposed to enter tho .rivers, as no more are taken on the coast. These salmon sell .at Richibucto for £2 lOs. per barrel, payable in cash. On this line of coast, the fall herring are abundant, but only a few are taken at the Kouchibouguac beaches by the salmon fishers; they caught about 200 barrels the past season. It was stated as a reason why so small a quantity was takea, that this fishery occurs at the season when tlie settlers are engaged in making their Marsh i»ay, and that they have not time to attend to it, Thomas Powell, Esquire, of Richibucto, stated, that he has been fifty eight years settled at Richibucto, and that he was 13 years t>f age -when he first came with his father from Grimross, on the Saint John, to reside there. At t'uat time there was not a white settler on the wjiole coast,* from Shediac to Bay du Vin. Mr. Powell thinks there is no cod .fishing, properly so called, in tlie Straits of Northumberland, south of Richibucto Head, but north of a line drawn from that head to the west Cape of Prince Edward Inland, iie thinks the fishing very good. The in-shore fishing for ood is from the first June to 15th August; after that the fish move off into deep wsiter on the banks. Mr. Powell says, that vessels -of 35 tons, with crews of five men eacli, might prosecute the fish- eries from Richibucto profitably, fishing either on the Bradelle Bank, orat tlie Labrador; tliat if the vessels were larger than 35 ^
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