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Lawrence when they were smelts, is a good proof that the Tadoussac hatchery is
doing some good towards increasing the salmon in this district.
On one occasion I allowed the Professor Raymond Casgrain to fish the little
lake just above the hatchery where we plant so many fry every year. He was
permitted to take six, and in about twenty minutes he came back, much delighted,
with six young salmon. I gave, another day, the same privilege to Mr. I. D. Guay,
proprietor of the newspaper, the Progrès du Saguenay. He was astonished at the
number of young salmon that could be caught in this little lake, It is a splendid
fishery. The two parties were allowed to catch these fish in the hatchery lake as
an experiment to show how numerous the young salmon were in it.
This report is humbly submitted.
L N. CATELTjIER,
Officer in charge Tacloussac Hatchery.
1O..-.MAGO HATCHERY.
PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.
Report of the Officer in charge of the !dagog ilatchery for 1888.
I beg leave to submit the following annual report of the work of the Magog
flatchery for the past year.
On the 7th day of March last there were received from the Newcastle Hatchery
in Ontario and deposited in the Magog Hatchery 2,500,000 salmon trout eggs and
1,500,000 whitefish eggs, all of which were fully eyed and well developed. The
water supply here was colder than usual owing to the extreme lateness of the spring,
consequently the eggs were nearly one month later in hatching. Notwithstanding
this it is very gratifying to state that 1,350,000 whitefish and 2,125,000 salmon
trout fry were hatched and safely deposited in a vigorous healthy condition in the
following named sheets of water in accordance with the instructions from the superintendent
of fish culture :—.-
SAiMO TROUT DISTRrBtTTION.
Date. Lakes. Oountiea. Number.
1888.
May 23
do 24....
do 25.,...
do 29....
do 30......
do 31
June 4.....
do 5.....,
do 5.
do 5.....
do 7
do 8......
do 9
do 9
do 11
'do 11.....,
do 13
Massawippi
Ortord
&egantio..
\Iemphremagog..
do ..
do
Selby
t. Charles
Fortin .. ..
Nlemphremagog
Baldwins . ..
femphremagog
Orford ..
Iemphremagog..
William ,
Richmond
Bamston...
Stansead.
Bcome and Compton. .
Ilegantic . .. ..
Stanstead and Brome
do
do ..
Missisquoi ..
Beance ..... ..
do
Stanstead and Brome
Stanstead
do and Brome.
Compton do .
Stanstead do
Megantic
Richmond. ....
Stanstead
Total
150,000
150,000
150,000
2 )0,00()
200,000
200,000
75,000
50,000
100,000
200,000
50,000
200,000
100,000
125,000
100,000
25,000
50,000
2,125,000