Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-12-20

MS of II0utor, for the waters in that vicinity,
and 10 ZOO to Nh Neil of Calais. y punch ,>e of
$4,000 was ma e f ON the Doh,ls Club. Those
were hached at Buckspori under the sklllful
hand ot Alfred Swasey, E.q., and re sent
5000 to Newport pond 5000 to Dexter pond,
5000 TO Belgrade pond, 5000 to Silver lake, Au-
gns,a. 1000 to Cothosseecontee pond, 1000 to
Gold Sprng pond, Enfield, and 5000 10 pond in
Lincoln.
The Commissioners distributed Saline Oquossa
OF Bue-back Trout, rs follows 900 in Dexter
pond, 1000 III Worthy pond, Peru, 10000 IN
Weld pond, 5000 in Cobbo,seecontee pond, and
10000 in ThomI sons pond, Oxford
There has been a wide call for black bass, and
some forty ponds and streams have been supplied
There is excellent bass fishing in Phillips pond in
Dedham, CobbOsseecontce pond, near Halloweli,
on the Maine Central, Falmouth pond near Port
land, &C. &c, all accessible by railroad and
stage
There is an increased demand for s.ewives from
the county, from the fsct that the SUPPLY has
been destroyed by The erection of dams, and The
shutting out of the mig atory fish from the breed
ing grounds. The alcwNc can be most cheaply
raised; all that it requires is access to some pond
to deposit its eggs; these latter are about loo,-
600 TO a fish, IT nay be inferred they b eed very
rapidly. The erection of mills Ga ali our little
tributary brooks has materially reduced our sup
ply.
Ii is not the fish and game that is killed TO be
eaten by the party killing that lessons the stock
OF our forests and streams. 1t Is what is Killed
for transportation and market, Winter fishing IS
not the source OF the evil. The fish IN winter
have spawned. One fish killed in October causes
more destruction than huLdied taken Through
the ice. 1t we could prevent ciop, oil winch
each CT zen of the State owns n share, being
gathered and sold by greedy monopolisls, We
should at once check the evil. Let the law OF
close time tor land locked salmon, trout and
togue, be from the first day of October until the
iii 81 day OF February, OF even March, as nutilthep
the days are short and cold, aud the people arc
reasonable and Will obey any isu, inn artlal, Jusl
law. Let the punishment Tor using set lines,
grapnel-, uets, weirs, traps, or any device other
than fam angling with single bated hook and line
OF fly hooks, be not only foe and imprisonment
but Imprisonment, 10 hard labor, and lmpIlson
meBt also of one DAY lot each dollar OF hGe I'M
paid. Let there be fol fixture Of all implements.
boats &c, used IN illegal fish NJ, upon satisiacto
~ Iruut before the nearest magistrate that they
we've 80 used la AL our game aud hshiu1 laws
let the attempt to commit the Otlence he pun
The Commissioners are IN favor ut tue pofgy
law passed by the last legislature. They ask for
small Appropriation iot supply OF salmon eggs,
ana for the Establishment of Matching houses at
M0osehe ad and Raugeiy, and al other prominent
points ON he rivers 10 DC stocked. mole stun
gent law is CURED against netting in our lnlahd
waters. The keuncbec Association ior tue Pro-
lection OF Fish and Game are DONG great and
good work, and have icrd tred much valuable as
slsiauce IN suppIe,sinL Illegal fishing. law has
been passed 10y the Province OF NV Brunswick
requiring all non res Idents huntiug, shooting or
tapping within hei borders, to pay twenty dol
lars for license. law ot tue same tenor will
be required in Maine or we shall be ovetrun with
sporting tramps. Hunting aud fishing seem t. be
almost IND iss Jluoy connected, lnsenuch as hunt
ers destroy our fish largely both for their and
their dogs food. TO require twenty dollar IL
cense would be some protection to Us; and as We
subjected TO the expense OF protecting the
game by our laws and Legislation and 1t !, fed
and grown on our land-, it would seem but just
and fair.