Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-03
Commissioners Make Annual
Report to Gov. and Council.
Year Has Been Prosperous in Both
Fishing and Hunting.
There Were 4l3 Moose and 1O.32O Deer
Killed During 1901.

the work Of the various fish hatCheries
in the State. They say:
Lake Auburn Station-Fish Matched
Brook trout. $4,000: land-locked
salmon. 10000: other fish. $4,000 OF
these. $4,000 brook trout. $4,000 salmon
and 5000 other fish We're planted soon
after Matching. the balance being fed al
this station and planted in october
and November as follows: Brook
trout, 80, 900; land-locked salmon, AZ.
900: brown and steel-head trout. 1880
The following eggs have been taken
and are now in the Matching troughs at
this station: Brook trout 100000; land
locked salmon. $4,000.
; Cobbosseecontee Station-Fish hatch
ed Brook trout. 10000; land locked
| salmon 16S 691. Of these, Ill 500 brook
trout were planted soon after Matching.
| In the fall 25 200 brook trout and 163.-
400 land-loCked salmon were planted:
now in hatchery. 5000 land-locked
salmon and 1000 brook trout; eggs in
Matching trough. brook trout. 200, 600.
land-locked salmon. 1000.
Edes Falls Station. Sebago Lake
Fish Matched: Brook trout. $4,000:
land-locked salmon. $4,000. We had
rs. 900 yearling trout at this station.
Early planting took 100. 900 bl ook trout
fall planting. brook trout, 3O.OO0: land
locked salmon. 100000. There are now
Is. 900 land-locked salmon at this
hatchery.
| Caribou Station-F'ish Matched:
| Brook trout 1874. OS9; brown trout, 49,
land locked salmon. 1cJ. 2?9: white
fish. II 200 OF these. II 200 white fish
! I, lit, Ia,
tho fall. 81 200 land locked salmon. 5S7
| brown trout and 1000 brook trout
were planted There were 81. 900 salmon
ana trout in the troughs at time report
was made. eggs in trouEhs, $4,000 brook
trout: 2O6. 900 land-locked salmon; 2oO,
| 600 white fish.
The commissioners report that the
| Moosehead hatchery building on lower
Squaw brook gives promise of large re-
turns when completed.
The commissioners say that on ac-
count Of high water it has been i'm
possible to place the fish screen at the
outlet of Lake Sebago. The screen was
made and is ready to be placed when
water will permit. The screen cost
$l364 which is 1884 in excess of the APP
preparation. The excess will be raised
by popular subscription.
| The following waters were stocked
with brook trout fry from the Mon
| mouth or Cobbosseecontee hatchery:
| Delano brook, $500: Annabessacook
lake. $4,000: Lake MaranaCook, $4,000;
| CobbosseeContee lake, $4,000. Total,
! Ill. 500
The following waters in Kennebec
county were stocked with fed fish from
this hatchery in the fall of 1901, as fol-
| lows:
| Flying pond. land-locked salmon,
! $500: brook trout. $500; Ellis pond,
| land-locked salmon. 1000: Weber pond,
| Iand-locked salmon 1000: Togus pond.
| land-locked salmon, 5000: Davis pond.
| land locked salmon, 1000: Three Cor
nered pond. 1000: J. H. Gilman, Mon
mouth, land-locked salmon, 5000; Lake
| Maranacook. locked salmon. 5O0O
Lake Annabessac cook land-locked sal
mon. 5000: the Belgrade lakes. land
| locked salmon, 5000: Narnows pond.
| Winthrop, land-locked salmon. 50O0
Lake Cobbosseecontee land-locked sal
mon, 5000.
| Ten thousand land-locked salmon
| were put into Moosehead lake from
| the Caribou hatchery.
| Under the head of big game the
| commissioners say:
From the best informal ton we have
been able to obtain from the annual re-
PORTS of guides. sporting camp pro-
prietors, transportation companies and
others. 81 moose have been killed
legally and 96 killed illegally. making
| a total Of Alb moose killed in the State
this; year large ma jority of those
killed Illegally were cows and calves.
i From the same sources of informa-
ton we learn that 10,320 deer have
been legally killed this year. We have
no reliable data to show the number
illegally killed.
There is no indication of Caribou re-
turning to the State.
''The number of bears killed by par
ties guided by registered guides is 81.
There were 1900 guides registered
during the year. in accordance with the
State law. These have guided a total
of S3.1S7 days. an increase of 1862 days
over last year. The number of resi-
dents guided 1855: number Of non-resi-
dents guided. 1O.428. About 100 guides
have failed as yet to report as required
by law.
There were % dealers in deer skins
licensed They report having bought
HOG deer skins at an average price OF
45 2-3 cents each.
.'The number of licensed camp pro-
, prietors was 122. They report having
entertained 4429 resident and $3.50 nom
, resident guests.
There were "a licensed marketmen
and they report having purchased by
virtue of their licenses 235 deer to sell
at retail to their customers.
1--WE licensed 81 hunters and trap
!, pers this year. They report having
: taken specimens of each of the follow
: ing animals: Bear. "a; fox. 1876; mink
2e3: sable. 80: otter %: skunk. 10
LYNX, 8: black cat" %: pine marten
20: fisher, 16: muskrat. ia; marten. rs
q AS vet we have received reports only
. from 36 of the licensed hunters ant
trappers.
There are AZ licensed taxidermists il
the state. They report having mount
ed the following specimens of fish ant
= game which were taken within thi
!. state: Eagle. L: moose. 2: mOos
heads. 1893: deer. II: deer heads. 1888
fish hawk, 1; grouse, 4: bear. 90: coon
6: fox, 1877; miscellaneous small game
rec. birds 400