The Republican journal., 1896-10-29

Port Clyde had 30 schooners engaged in
deep sea fishing Now there is but one,
captained by Andrew Marshall. The lob
ster industry is providing the Decessaries
about IS men being engaged. More than 30
boats are employed and the daily catch is
estimated at 1000 Holsters. The whole
sale price is cents each. The hard
shell fish are shipped to Boston and Port
land. One fisherman and he probably
represented the sentiments of the others
also, says that the persons who keep pounds
keep down the price of the fish. HOLSTERS
are scarse and the daring fishermen have
to work hard for what they get.... The
engineer of the Connecticut Shellfish
Commission is quoted as saying that
the recent big storm damaged the
natural oyster beds in the sound in
the vicinity of the Housatonic river
to the extent of $4,000. The en-
gineer says that the beds have been
covered with sand, and ''sets' are entirely
destroyed. The clam canning factory at
Port Clyde has been moved to Friendship
and the Rockland Courier Gazette says
that Port Clyde is clammering for some
other industry to take the place of the
one lost. '..... Game Warden Neal, who is
stationed at the Maine Central Station,
Bangor, says that large amount of game
is being shipped through that city daily.
A new feature of game inspection is be-
ing used this year. An accurate account
is kept of each animal that passes through
that city, by whom and where killed. and
the list published every day. BY this
plan the hunters are liable to get into
trouble if they make q trip into the Maine
forest at the early part of the season and
get their full quota of game and return
again IN few weeks and get another lot
more than the law allows one person to
have. Enormous catches of maekerel
We're made off Block Island Oct 14th
Four vessels carried into New London
about 200 fish, which were shipped to
New DIRK and Boston. 80. Matinicus gun
ners keep the families of that place sup
piled with sea fowl when the weather is
favorable. The cooks take as much pains
in preparing them for the table as they do
a Thanksgiving turkey and a great many
think they are just as good eating. 80. The
large new State hatchery at Monmouth
is completed and in operation. Many big
trout and salmon, weighing from four to
seven pounds each, have been placed in
''the weirs'' in the stream near South
Monmouth, caught as they come up from
Lake Cobbossee. A skilled hand is sta
toned at ''the weirs, ~ who strips the fish
of their spawn and carries it all to the
hatchery pens. All the young fish are to
be put into the Monmouth pounds, and
from now on the future Of trout and sal
mon fishing there is assured. .. Arrange
ments are being made to strip large
quantity of spawn from the trout in the
upper lake at Winthrop this month"; The
water is so high that the trout can 90 far
up the brooks, sc that conditions for pro-
curing spawn will be unusually favorable.
..... The lobstermen in Marblehead are
heavy losers on account of the recent
Storm 1t is estimated that no less than
800 pots have been lost, which practical
ly puts an end to the lobster business
there for the winter. With the destruc-
ton of fish nets the actual loss to the fish
ermen is no less than s., 900, which will
be a great hardship. Oct. 18th SCH
Maggie and May, Capt. Alex McEachern,
completed the discharge at Gloucester
of her third trip of Bank cod weighing
off $4,000 pounds, making her catch for
the season 49, 900 pounds. which is far
ahead of all previous records Her stock
is something like S15, 600 and makes her
high line of the Bank fleet.