Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-12-20
FISH AND GAME.
The State Commissioners Make
Their Annual Report.
thousands of People Bring Several
Millions Dol.a $ Into Maine.
September acknowledgements Of Caribou
PLENTY Of Deer.

me annual report of the commits.
sloners of inland fisheries and game
mas Deen filed with the governor and
council.
II is pronounced by those who have
seen 1t OF more than usual interest and
Importance. 1t will be illustrated with
10 full page engravings.
We gather from it the following in
| teresting facts:
THE STATE MUSEUM.
Ihere are in the museum 1854 speci-
! mems OF the animals and birds native
10 Maine,-from large COW moose tc
Held mouse. Ten thousand persons
nave visited it in a little more than a
year.
FISH HATCHERIES.
IheTe are four fish hatcheries and
ieedlnS stations. as follows one at
each of the following named places
VIZ; Edes Falls. Lake Auburn. Carl
bou and Monmouth.
Their product has been as follows.
Edes Falls, 164,900 salmon. so. GOO trout
ali planted in Lake Sebago and its
tributary waters. There are now in this
hatchery 10000 trout and 325 900 land
licked salmon eggs taken during the
spawning season.
Lake Auburn Hatchery. There were
distributed from this hatchery in the
public waters of the State 237, 600 land
locked salmon and 117,000 brook trout
and there are now in this hatchery
100000 1and-locked salmon and 80. 900
trout eggs.
Monmouth Hatchacvy
distributed from this hatchery 194. 500
trout and 5000 land-locked salmon.
Eggs now in this hatchery 325, 900
trout.
Caribou Hatchery. Distributed 1862
land-locked salmon. GS, 666 brook trout
ard 100000 white fish. There are now
in this hatchery $4,000 land-locked
salmon, 14.500 brook trout, 10000 white
fish and 5000 brown trout eggs
The report calls attention to the
urgent need OF new and modern
hatchery of large capacity, sufficient
TO raise a million fish each year. as the
call by the people for the product of
these hatcheries increases largely each
year.
In 1867, the first resolve was passed
looking to the protection Of fish and
game; since then it has been the
settled policy of the State to artifi-
cially raise fish and protect fish and
game.
Nathan w. Foster and Charles G.
Atkins We're the first commissioners.
In 1872, Mr.. Atkins went upon the
staff of the L. S. fish commission, and
Mr.. Stilwell and Mr.. Stanley We're APP
&c
Der of the commission.
The first salmon eggs procured for
artificial Matching were bought of the
| Canadian government at S44.S0 pei
thousand in gold. Now they are taken
/ in our own waters at a cost of less
| than 81 per thousand.
| There were originally but four lakes
where these fish We're found in Maine
| now there are more than 100 where
| they abound.
| The fish is many times more valu-
able to the State than its game, and
both are well worth protecting.
| From the returns received at the
! office on blanks sent out for this pur-
| pose. there are over l 200 private cot
tages around the inland lakes and
more than Goo hote,S, lodges and camps
where sportsmen are entertained
costing with boats. canoes and fur
nshings, over 100000
The number of people who came t.
Maine in, 1900 is variously estimated
from fifty to two hundred and fifty
thousand.
Col. F. e. Boothby estimates tni!
number at $4,000, who came to the in
~ TOTO zoo
tion-fishermen hunters and summe
visitors. At least from four TO 81
millions of dollars were expended II
Maine by these visitors, and a yer!
much larger amount if Mr.. Boothb!
| is correct in his estimate.
The wear has been the best in on
history. More people have come her
than ever before in a single year am
the fishing was never better.
Attention is called in eloquent an
striking language to the State as tn
paradise of sportsmen.
"There are 5000 streams representa-
upon the State map, and l,Soo lake
and ponds. Lovely and grand SebaG
in the south. with its 30-lb. salmon. tn
Raneeleys in the west. dear to tn
hearts of fishermen in nearly ever
state in America, with great specl
mems of the brook trout of 10 lbs. 9
more. Cobbosseecontee, Annabessacoof
Naranocook. and the eight large lake
in the Belgrade chain. in kennepe
county. suddenly revealing their plsca
torial entertainments to the deilgnf G
thousands. Moosehead lake in tn
lnorth. Names great inland sea,
miles in length. with Mt. Kineo in tn
midst. and majestic. silent katahdi
rearing it's rugged head in the dls
lance. beautiful Sebec dropped DOW
in a cluster of grand mountain
Chesuncook, Chamberlain, Easi
churchill and Square lakes M u
northeast. scores of miles in the VI
broken wilderness, surrounded by IN
,.,rgin forests and great mountain
Grand other lakes and the st. crel
waters in the Sunrise" county, In U
farthest east. beautiful beyond d'
= sCr.ntion. with hundreds OF shlaiie
lakes and ponds. sparkling Ike ola
,,o,ds set in emerald green, are see
Z in every township and afford the mos
aIorious opportunities for piscatori;
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