The Nepisiguit River is New Brunswick's best candidate for an excursion river. Its headwaters are in Mount Carleton Park, far from the province's population centre, and just underneath the tallest hills in the province.
The Nepisiguit River flows north and east from the Nepisiguit Lakes, some 80 odd miles to empty into the Bay of Chaleur in the northern New Brunswick city of Bathurst. It has long been recognized as a premiere Atlantic salmon river.
Including major tributaries, the river contains more than 150 miles of water suit-able
for salmon. There is, however, an impassable natural barrier created by a
100-foot double falls and subsequently the hydro dam of Smurfit-Stone. This has limited
salmon to the lower 18 miles of the Nepisiguit River, plus two of her smaller
tributaries, Gordon Meadow and Pabineau Brooks. |
