Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-02-21
INLAND FISHERIES, GAME
Numerous Matters Of Importance Are
Brought Before the Committee

The committee on inland fisheries and
game gave hearings on number or mat
tiers Tuesday afternoon.
Senator Stanley Of oxford appeared in
favor of the resolve for screening Stanley
ponds in the town of Hiram. He spoke OF
how the ponds were stocked two or three
years ago with salmon and 1t was thought
that citizens would attend to the matter
of the screening, but it was neglected. II
the appropriation is granted, the town
will vote in regular town meeting to APP
propriate money to keep the screen in
repair The town also agrees that the
funds will not be available until half the
amount is raised by the town.
Charles Harnden, one of the members
of the board of seectmen of Rangeley,
spoke in favor of an act to allow no fish
ing but fly fishing in Dodge and Round
ponds in the Rangeley region. He sald
that the owners Of cottages bordering on
these ponds were in favor of the act with
the exception of one man who conducted
public camp.
Senator Hastings of Androscoggin,
member of the committee, asked Mr..
Harnden why it wouldn't be a good idea
to close these ponds to all fishing, and
Mr. Harnden replied that all could get
all the fish they wanted if the fishing
was confined to fly fishing.
c. w. Porter of Lowell, Mass, was OPP
posed to the act He said that he had
! camp on these ponds for q years and
last year he built a sporting camp, spend
ing thousands of dollars. He expected to
have trolling on al least one of the ponds.
, If the people who come to the Rangeleys
in the early spring can't have troll fish
ing they won't come. He does not be-
lieve that the fishing has deteriorated
very much in either Dodge or Round
ponds and that it is as good there as it
was 10 years ago. He favors restrictions
but he thinks that trolling should be al
lowed on these ponds with q limit as to
the number of fish to be taken in a day.
Fly fishing is not good in either pond un-
til the fall of the year
Representative Clarence w. Dutton of
Bingham spoke in favor of the resolve for
screening the outlet of Decker pond, in
Somerset county The appropriation calls
for the sum of $50 and if there is any adj
ditional expense that will be borne by
parties who are interested in the ma,,-.
Many fish now escape from the pond and
perish in the brooks below.
Rep. Dutton also spoke in favor of tbs
resolve for screening Moxie pond, in
Somerset county He said that -1oxie
pond was one of the Ian yest in Somerset
county, being several miles long and that
ho;n 1rix Sch
escape from the pond and go to the
streams below.
z. NJ Gle, who owns sporting camps
across the pond from Mosquito station.
told the committee that he would see
that the screen was kept in condition,
and DIR. W. G. S. Sawyer Of Madison,
member of the House, also spoke a gooo
word for the resolve
s. f. Whitcomb of Waterville before
the committee advocated changing the
amount of the license fee which market
men must pay for cutting up deer. He
said that last year he cut up but two
deer and that cost him S.. Prior to the
session of the Legislature Of 1913 the fee
for the cutting up of deer was so cents
and he thought this was enough,
Hon. Fremont E. Timberlake Of
Portland appeared in favor of an act
to prohibit plug" fishing in the Range
ley Lakes as protective measure.
William r. Roix of Pressure Isle,
clerk of the House of Representatives,
spoke in favor of a general law which
would allow fishing through the ice
during the month of April. He said that
as the law is at present the people in
his county of Aroostook have the right
to fish through the ice. only during the
months of February and March. The
ice up in Aroostook does not go out of
the lakes until the middle of May or
the first of June, and April is an ideal
month for fishing of this kind, as dur
ing February and March it is cold. He
thought that the passage of the pro-
posed act would greatly please the peo-
pie of northern Aroostook, northern
Somerset, northern Piscataquis, Penob-
scot and Washington counties and he
knew of no opposition to the contem-
plated measure.
INTERIOR WATERS