New Brunswick's Miramichi River system is comprised of 37 major tributaries containing over 7,700 individual streams. This vast stream network provides 5,500 hectares (13,600 acres) of mostly pristine fish habitat and is why the Miramichi is the worlds largest producer of Atlantic salmon.
When the term Miramichi is used, it is a multi-leveled concept. The Miramichi is a river, a city, a community, a region and a state of mind. It is unique and special in its own way.
Located on the northeast coast of New Brunswick, the Miramichi encompasses virtually all of Northumberland County, an area of 4, 720 square miles. Its main artery is the Miramichi River itself which is the second longest in the province.
The Miramichi River begins in Miramichi Bay some 25 miles across at Escuminac about 30 miles below the former Town of Newcastle, and journeys inland making its first branch at Beaubears Island about three miles above Newcastle, breaking into the Main Southwest which continues through Renous, Blackville, Doaktown and well above Boiestown to its source near the village of Juniper, a distance of close to 75 miles.
The other branch, The Northwest Miramichi heads up into Red bank and Sunny Corner where it branches into the Little Southwest and the Northwest Miramichi which continues beyond what was Heath Steele Mines.
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