Following its emergence in the 1840s, sport
fishing in New Brunswick grew as a recreational activity through tourist
promotion and an improved infrastructure. By the mid-twentieth century,
these factors combined with industrial development and environmental
degradation to increase the pressure on recreational fishing stocks,
leading to a more co-operative form of river management as the twenty-first
century begins.
his scene recalls the early
days of sport fishing with plentiful stock and no limits on catch. Lord
Mulgrave, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, is shown with members of
his entourage during a visit to the Nepisiguit River in northeastern
New Brunswick during the late 1850s.
Morning at Mid-Landing (1860)
From a lithograph after William Hickman in Nipisaguit, A River of
New Brunswick, B.N. America.
(Courtesy: Webster Collection, New Brunswick Museum)
his photograph shows one
of the last wild salmon taken in Saint John Harbour in 1971, the
year the commercial fishery of this species was closed in the
harbour. By 1985, the commercial netting of wild salmon in the
Maritimes was banned entirely. Although sport fishermen can catch
a limited number of one-year-old wild salmon (grilse), consumers
today rely primarily on aquaculture for salmon.
The Last Salmon from Saint John Harbour? (1971)
(Courtesy: Saint John Telegraph Journal)
Date Created: November 16, 2001 | Last Updated: April 30, 2010
his scene recalls the early
days of sport fishing with plentiful stock and no limits on catch. Lord
Mulgrave, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, is shown with members of
his entourage during a visit to the Nepisiguit River in northeastern
New Brunswick during the late 1850s.
