Natural resources of Quebec

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Identifikator:: 1796289558

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-181093

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Natural resources of Quebec

Edition:: Rev. ed.

Place of publication:: Ottawa

Publisher:: Natural resources intelligence service

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: 132 p; illus., maps

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VII. Fisheries and game

Collection:: Economics Books

FISHERIES AND GAME 103 cod into some of the southern republics of South America has been stimu- lated by the scarcity of meat. The quantities of cod in the southern waters of the gulf of St. Law- rence off the shore of the Magdalen islands and the mainland of Gaspé and Bonaventure appear to show very little diminution year by year, but the coastal cod fisheries on the north shore of the St. Lawrence have declined in recent vears, as the cod have been seeking deeper water. Herring are Plentiful.—Spring herring enter the gulf with the spring tides about the beginning of Mav and are first found at the Mag- Fishing boat of Gaspé, Quebec dalen islands. After a few days they appear at the head of Chaleur bay, then along the Gaspé coast and later at Anticosti island. The final catch of this spawning herring is made early in June above cape Whittle on the north coast. During the rest of the season catches of herring inshore are more or less uncertain. Both herring and mackerel fishing industries offer excellent opportunities for greater development. Salmon in the Gulf.—The commercial salmon areas of Quebec are the estuaries of the rivers of the Gaspé peninsula and of those flowing into the north shore of the river and gulf of St. Lawrence from the Saguenay to the straits of Belle Isle. Salmon fisheries have been operating for years at the estuaries of the Bersimis, Moisie, and Natashquan rivers which are renowned for the large quantity and size of their fish. There is prac-

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