Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-12-03
Maine Fish and Game Notes.

Six bears have been killed in Aroos.
took county this year SO far.
Several thousand fish from the Green
Lake hatchery We're put into Middle
Branch waters at Great Pond, recently
John harrington, Jr., of Lowell. had
at last accounts II foxes, besides other
animals as a result of his fail framing
Lewis Dow of Avon, is persistent
and successful bird hunter. He has
stopped an even score of grouse Tins
far this season.
The Shepherd Bros. have had nut
into their abandoned quarry, at Simon
ton, which now contains a large
amount of water, 1900 brownback
trout and 5000 salmon trout
Speaking of his cunning trips, Chas.
Gahan of Bath, remarked the other
day that he shot over 20 partridges one
fall, and that without the assistance of
dog.
Royal Scribner, the successful bow
trapper of Eustis, has caught five foxes.
and he has lost no time from school
while attending his traps.
Capt. Thaddeus Gross of OceanviIle.
is high line in the lobster fishing bust
ness this fall. One week recently he
stocked $63, the largest weeks stock
known for a number of years.
Phillips lake is being stocked with
1000 landlocked salmon from the hatch
cries at Green Lake. f. o. Perkins has
been engaged to be on the lookout for
podchefS as the law will be strictly en-
forced.
George L. Crosby of Orland, one of
Names most successful fox-trappers,
has been doing a good business in Au-
rora and vicinity, trapping about fifty
foxes and number of coons and bob
cats in the past few weeks.
Deer are rapidly increasing in York
county. Ward Smith of Hollis, saw
seven with his cattle the other day, in
Guiding beautiful young fawn There
is special law that protects them for
two years longer.
One hundred and fifty salmon sur
prised Superintendent Stanley of the
Lake Auburn fish hatchery Thanksglv-
ing night, running up the brook and
into pounds. Superintendent Stanley
already had on hand more salmon eggs
than can be Matched at this hatchery
but he stripped the fish and the eggs
will be distributed at various points.
The crab supply of the Maine coast
is reported plentiful. AT the opening
of the season it was feared that the
crab catch would prove a failure. but
instead it has proved profitable. The
boats now average about eight barrels
a day each, and as the demand has
been very good, the industry has been
very successful.
Foxes are numerous in the vicinity
of Alfred and their fur is of unusual
beauty and luxuriance. A party of
Portsmouth sporstmen recently Sc
cured four silver grays during a days
excursion in that vicinity, while a
sportsman from Maiden had the rare
good luck to shoot coal-back fox.
the first one shot near that town for
several years.
The sportsmen predict that the brook
trout next year will be very scarce.
The water during the summer and fall
has been very low, and as a conse-
quence a great many streams We're
dried up. destroying all hope of good
trout fishing when the season opens. on
account of the killing of the trout
spawn which must necessarily follow
the scarcity of water.
a visit to any of the large fish houses,
convinceS one that every part of fish is
used. Even the skins are used for
making glue, and the piles of scraps
that are noticeable in every fish house,
are not so worthless as might be imag-
ined. Cod skins bring about S35 a ton,
While haddock and hake skins are
worth 50. Many of them are shipped to
st. John, N. B.. where they are con-
verted into glue.
Harry, the ten-year-old son of
Henry Smith of Denmark, recently set
a couple of traps for coons, hoping he
might beat an older neighbor whose
luck at coon-catching had not been re-
several days later he found nice large
coon in each trap. The animals were
promptly killed, and their pelts We're
taken off, to be sold and thereby add to
the happy lads pocket money.
Messrs. Coombs and Wilson of Rock
land who own a number of fine hunt
ing dogs, take as good care of them as
they do of themselves or their horses.
The dogs go with them in the carriage
to the hunting grounds. and when they
return to the carriage are of course
heated by the chase. Each dog is pro-
vded with closely fitting blanket.
which is put on for their ride home, the
same care being taken in this respect
as the men take of themselves in re-
gard to their Overcoats.
Few people realize when they see a
seine boat with a big seine piled high
in it that these same articles cost from
$3.50 to $500 or s9Ob. They are not par
long-lived either, although
mackerel net will outwear a porgy net.
They are being continually repaired
and added TO, and in this manner are
used for six or eight years.
One can realize then what it means to
a fisherman when his nets are de-
In the opinion of a wellknown Port
lander who for many years was en-
gagged in the mackerel fishing. the rea-
sons for these fish becoming scarce and
not rising to the surface is the prac-
tice of seining, which kills many of the
Young. and the discontinuance of the
CT trau,;no of prOunl bait of DOr0ieS