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The group says young salmon who spent only one winter at sea before returning to the river, called grilse, fared especially poorly last year.

Many of them returned in 1959 to give large runs of grilse to the native stream.

Fishermen remarked on the extreme scarcity of grilse — the youngest group of returning fish.

At the sampling trap in the estuary of the Miramichi the count of grilse was only a fourth as large in 1959 as the year before.

Salm′on-peal, -peel, a grilse under 2 lb.;