Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1910-08-17
BROOK TROUT.
characteristics Of this Popular
Game Fish.


fBy Charles @. Atkins. superintendent OF
Craig Brook fsh hatchery, Orlando
There are trout and trout. No less than
nine distinct species in twenty-eight va
rieties, are known a. trout among the
fishes OF North America. There are, for
instance, the great lake trout, the rain
bow trout, the dollyvarden trout, the
SunApee trout and 80 on; and in Europe
and Asia there are many other species.
But at the head of them all, in beauty
and quality and renown, stands the
speckled brook trout Of North America.
This Is the trout that inhabits every
cool brook in Maine, and nearly or quite
all the deep and cool ponds and lakes. In
the brooks it Is generally dimtnutive
creature, weighing only few ounces; in
the lakes it is . fish OF pounds, but it is
the ichthyologist as Saivelinus fontinalis
that is, the trout Tor ''cbsrr'J Of the
fountains. This name ''charr" is one
that our brook trout has escaped by some
sort Of accident; for those trout OF the old
~oliu ~n'on arc 'noS' o.osey 'el.,.u " =
IN s.ra''u.e sie NOV cAheo fou' ~,
ou' cnsrI anu some oi 'ne oia WIN
o usss u.
s'.' 'n.s oui nsu snou'u " '~i'eo oA'' ING
en.it
But what is in namef To US this fav-
orite fish has always been q trout; and
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".As' "'n ns' oo.n ne weighs perhaps
sse :. s WIN suen ,nmense
sp'o'.y ooes ne erow, II conoitions arc
iA'otAD.e' 'ns' N SIX months tne TWO
s.,Is nAse oeone one Oh TWO nunareo
ki.'ns' .uu N 'nfee year, ne ~e,sns rom
one " 'escfAi Pounos' tnst ~ from iouf
ven 'no"s.no times tne ~e'snt WIN
"Sn ne s'.i'eo IN ms VIC humans
gre" nke 1na' VIC snooid get 10 "eign
twenty 'ons sp'ece oeiore We were oio
enough " 20 10 scnooi.
arou' sPpe.l 70 oe soie 10 soaps tnem-
Elves W 'nen enSiloninents remArkAoiy
~en' GROWING snowy ano remaining A.
"Ays s"Aii nsn II IN very c'ose quarters,
s@h orook, ior instsnce, ano
"ne'e iooo - scanty' out IN oeep ana
.oo'ny ~A'es' ~to sounosnt ioco' grow
ing 20 very .Afee s1e. fernAps u - IN the
nAnseiey axes .nst tney reacn tne great
60. weight. Inc writer once saw the
eaten OF an aHernoon nsning- party a. the
nAnseieys iaio OUT sioe Dy sioe ON taoie,
sno tneU "ss trout iof every naii
Pouno up 70 e'sns POUNDS. Larger nsn
IMAM 1ns nave, however, peen caught In
those waters; there are welt-attested in
stances OF eieven-Pouno Trout ana per-
maps iafser.
Inc Drook trout 10 iAvorite subject OF
artInciaI propagation and rearing. The
United states nsn commission distributed
o'ooSoo OF various ages during single
year. In southeastern massachusetts,
there are several nsh-farms devoted to the
growing OF trout for market. Spring
Drooks are transformed into ponds where
many thousands Of trout are fed oy hand
on chopped meat, chopped nah, etc., on
4nrh aeaI4 that the r1Pn6nCf a