Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-10-19
DAILY KENNEBEC JOURNAL. TUESDAY OCTOBER 49, 1918.

| POAiuS UAth a rSOAAUAAASN
capacity Of 22.0O0.000 gallons. and a
long waterway. 1900 feet in length,
which supplies the water. and a corps
OF employees numbering experts In
this science.
Iwenty-three years ago the hatchery
was established at Green Lake, on
farm that is said to have been cleared
Tor 100 years. For 20 years. the pres
ent superintendent, Edward e. Race,
mas been In charge. From small be-
glnnings, the plant has grown until 1t
now comprises the following build
ings: Residence of superintendent, q
handsome structure overlooking the
| lake, residence Of foreman, home Of
fish cultnrists and laborers, boat house.
station. wharf, coal shed. ice house,
small shed for grinding food, hatchery
building and stables. The water sup
ply comes from Rocky Pond, with a
splendid quality of water, which runs
through gravity fiume 1900 feet in
| length. At the head Of the flume. In
Rocky Pond. is a large dam 365 feet in
| length. built to hold water in reserve.
From October to June of each year
$500 gallons of water are supplied
every so seconds every hour in the day.
| The water flows direct to the hatch
cry building, also to two large reser-
voirs or settling ponds, zoo by $50 feet.
holding 100000 gallons each. Here
| fish are grown to maturity after being
| Matched. In the rear Of the hatchery
there are IA small cement ponds for
experimental purposes, and 107 troughs
for rearing, also 80 troughs north Of
the hatchery.
For the fiscal year ending June 80
last, the output of the hatchery ex-
teeded 2o,000,000 fish. including almost
every variety of fresh water fish in the
| State Of Maine, land-lockcd salmon,
brook trout humpback salmon, smelts,
lake trout, rainbow trout and Pacific
humpback salmon. Most of the eggs
are slipped from salmon COLLECTED in
Green Lake, Grand Lake Stream In
Washington county. where a collecting
station is maintained under the super
vision Of the Green Lake hatchery,
while the brook trout fry are obtained
in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
Arrangements have been made for
establishing a collecting station for
landlocked salmon at Fish River Lake.
| During the past % years, hundreds
of millions of fish. fingerlings-sal-
mon, are nearly as long as ones finger
when they are released-have been dis
tributed throughout the ponds and
lakes of Maine. The results, while not
the continuance of the work by the
! EnN l.-< To-,
ponds have been stocked with fish
which never before had been known to
contain fish of the variety introduced.
Branch Pond is an example Of this,
pond that offers the best of sport for
Bangor fishermen as well as others
The criticism has been made that
Green Lake has not been helped by the
hatchery as much as other lakes, but
in answer to this Mr.. Race states that
during the 20 years that he has been at
Green Lake, not more than $500 fish
in all have been taken from the lake
for breeding purposes, which would in
dicates that the hatchery has not been
denuding the lake of its fish supply.
Just why the fish planted in the lake
are not caught more by the fishermen
is problem that cannot easily be
answered. but Mr.. Race believes that
if the tributaries to Green Lake were
kept closed for several years and the
law Observation-Disclosures would find
Green Lake the best fishing resort in
the State. / 1t is HIS belief that the
tributaries ares heavily fished the
young fish thus being killed off before
they enter the lake. 80 Vs.
Matching Of Pacific humpback SAL
mon from fry brought across the con-
tinent was first tried at Green Lake
two years ago, and the experiment has
proven decided success, as the fish
are reported from the Penobscot River,
Dennys River and other places along
the coast. Humpback salmon are
prolific. hardy, good food fish, and
will prove an important addition to
the fisheries of Maine. Humpback SAL
mon fingerlings have been distributed
in ST. Croix River, Dennys River,
Pleasant River, Union, Penobscot. An
droscoggin, Damariscotta, Pedomack
and ST. George Rivers.