Field Notebook: Quebec 1908
Page 81
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Along the beach I saw the interesting phenomenon of thousands of capelin very driven ashore in the surf. They make a great struggle but it is a hopeless one for eventually their strength gives out. The beach in places is fairly alive with crawling and jumping capelin. For 2 miles there were dead capelin along the line of high tide. The fork storm also brought up a great mass of kelp and around the stems once fastened clumps of thousands of fish eels. Some were yellow, orange, pink but none of somewhat different sizes. On the kelp once also picked up four large Morus still alive. There ought to be a feast along the beach tomorrow for the bears. All along the shore where the capelin once coming ashore we saw many seals among the treedlers after the fish. Also gulls and gannets congregated but picked