license fee for non-residents who are not members of a club incorporated under the laws of Quebec Province is $25 for the season. Non-resident members of fish and game clubs, $10. Non-residents' salmon-fishing license, $25; other fish, $10. The finest salmon rivers of the Peninsula are leased for five to nine years. Part of the Grand Cascapedia rents for $12,000. Salmon have been hooked in it weighing up to 50 pounds. The Grand River is owned by a Boston man. The St. John of the North Shore is leased for $3300 by James J. Hill, whose party sometimes catch five hundred salmon on a fly in three weeks. From the St. John of the South Shore, on which Baker's Hotel, Gaspé Basin, owns fishing rights which guests may share without cost, salmon are taken weighing 18 to 20 pounds. The York River average is but a few pounds less.
Tunny, or tuna, of 300 to 400 pounds' weight are speared near Gaspé Basin. Off Percé, in the St. Lawrence Gulf, visitors may catch cod, halibut, haddock, herring, mackerel, smelt, caplin and lobster, and in the mountain streams, trout weighing up to three pounds.
Of all the finny tribes which swim Provincial waters, trout are the most ubiquitous, tuna the hugest, and salmon the most desired. To cite even principal localities where trout of various species rise to the hook and overflow the creel
