Daily Kennebec journal., 1877-12-17

| water Full grown salmon have been seen in the
river the first time for forty years. very large
number OF salmon fry have been turned into the
Androscoggin river, at aud above Dixfeld, and
with proper facilities OF ascent over the dams al
Brunswick, the river should be fail the coming
spring, of well grown salmon. The lower tshway
at Brunswick Is entirely insdequate 10 ITS require
ments and position.
The Penobscot SALMON Breeding works al
Bucksport have not not been in operation this
year. In consequence there will be no salmon
fry or eggs TO distribute the ensuing year. 1t u
hoped next year to resume operations st Bucks
port. The Commissioners hope they they may
have it IN their power to cooperate W lth the /.
,. Government aud our sister states Commission
ers, both at Bucksport for sea salmon, and at
Grand lake and SoDgo lock, for laAd-lOcAed sal
mon.
OF the Sslno-Sebago (mscalled land-locked
salmon) the Commissioners says: 1--WE oblainod
four thousand eggs, by begging from Ifoi. halld,
which were sent TO Mr.. Whitman of Pembroke,
who hatched them IN water IN his Locality, and a
like number for DIR. Frank Inns oi fiouiiOn, who
kindly dld the same serv zee for water. lu his Vi
cnIty. We were promised some ny from DJnsls,
by Hon. Harvey Jewell, but owing to some mlshap
with the Try, they were not delivered; thcsc iatct
were tended for pond in Lincoln. We took n
few thousand oya at SongO lJck, under chargc OF
Mr. Dillingham; which were distributed Ia W cbo's
pond IN Franklin county, ten thousand; Cobo1s-
seecontee lake three thousands Whitney pOud in
Canton three thousand; Ringely lake eighteen
lake, all the line of lakes emptying lno the Ken
nebec above and below Augusta, should be stock
ed with these fish. Rangely, through ITS hne
Club OF public spirited gontlcmen, has set the eN-
ample OF providing good hatching house. why
cannot a club be organized at Moo.eLead lake
Ii the inhabitants of the locality deserving OF
state AID in restocking their lake, they Will build
Matching house. a few thousant eggs OF the
oebago salmon, few Thousand eggs oil The
Rangey trout, ha,ched aud turned luto those
lagA -
popular summer resort IN the United states. 1t
to be hoped that hatchiug houses will be estab-
lished at Dexter, and belgrade and China, aud
ali laces where there are waters 10 be stocked.
The demand for black bass has steadily increased
from year to year, the applications telng mostly
to depleted waters or waters where there is little
else left but piCkeTtl and yellow perch ana hreme
Meddy ybemps lake has been stocked with black
bass; $4,000 shad fry turned into the
Msttawamkeag river; twenty bass We're put into
Lacoot pond, Nanceboro twenty were placed IN
Sidney pond, near NassalDoro' forty at Belfast
twenty bass were put mo llerlnOn pond, twenty
into the waters OF Little B ar pond, twenty INTO
pond 10 the vicinity of WinterQort, twenty into
Half Moon pond, North Searsport, twenty IN
Madaceank axe IN MattawamkeaS, twenty each
In Goose and Reed ponds, Dedham, twenty fOr
local waters iu Cherry field tairteen IN thompson
pond in Oxford, twenty-foGr In PeGnessewassee
pond, Norway, twelve IN North pond, Greenwood,
twenty for Biddeford, forty for two ponds'ln Iur-
tor Woodbury. pond in l. ichfed en- Ghteeu for
Small pond and fourteen ior Little PurZatoIy
pond in the same town, twenty Tor China pond.
Good reports have been received from the waters
stocked with black bass.
The fshway at the dam across the Penobscot
river at Bangor, is described. the opening OF
the fshwsy at the Holly Works dam was signalized
by the advent and capture of alewlyes above
Neazie; slewives were taken beneath the dam
at Dover. Two fshways have been laid out,
sLN ha hfatlf f.- fha .mtn -.
At the suggestion OF Col. j. w. Porter of Boring
ton, a few thousand salmon fry have already been
planted In these waters They will no be acces-
sible to aewives. A hshway has been laid out al
Columbia Falls, which viii be promptly built the
coming spring.
Appended to the report of the Commissioners,
is the report of Cbas. q. Atklns OF his operations
at Grand Lake stream III taking the ova vi
Scho0dc salmon for the Associated States and
the u. = Government. He reports that the fish
have not only recovered from the decline observed
but have shown themselves nearly 40 per cent.
more numerous than in 1870. Tne weather this
year was mild and favorable. The water in the
lake and stream was very low. The work of en-
closing the parent fish was begun October p,
and the catching of fish aud taking of spawn both
came to a close November 81 at which date the
full fish to be caught had dwindled down to one or
two per day, and of the total twenty four full
females handled on that day, only one was unripe.
1t appears that in warm season the ovaries of
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are laid earlier than in a cold season.
| The spawn-takng operations have not yet be-
gun to exercise much influence on the supply for
| good or bad. Mr.. Atkins says "Next year
will be the fourth from the time when Mr.. Leon
ard operated there, and think that the fish that
were hatched from eggs that took in 1877 will
not have time to grow up before 1872 or three
years from the time they were hatched For my
self, shall not be much surprised if both those
years, or even several more passed without the
influence of our operations showing itself. The
fishes subject to the operation Of various nat
ursl causes little understood, and the results of
these causes may at time show themselves in such
a way as to defeat any attempt to recognize the re-
suit of the breeding operations"
Not only has there been secured larger num-
Der of eggs this year, than usual, but there has
been larger yield per fish, being 925, against
sol in 1876 and "a in 1873. Mr.. Atkins had al
ready, before theclose of the season, reached the
conclusion that the fish of 1877 were more prolific
than those Of 1876; but he Is doubtful whether
the same can be said to 1885, that year the
fixtures for catching the sh less perfect, and
many fish came to hand that bad just begun TO lay
their eggs, had laid one-third even one half
of them, and yet were classed as "ripe fish, )" in
the same category with those that were quite full
The eggs were secured in good condition, and are
now IN process of incubation In the Matching
house at the spring, Grand Lake stream. lie
learns that fishes were also plentier than usual at
Dobss stream, and that quite quantity (l75,OO0)
OF spawn has been secured there by the DObsls
Club.