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were sscured at Sebec Lake, and a still larger number at 

 Sebago and Grand Lake Stream, and, it is to be hoped, with 

 satisfactory results. 



The distribution of black bass has been continued by the 

 Commissioners, and they warmly recommend this fish for 

 waters already infested with pickerel, which they can success- 

 fully resist, even if they can not exterminate them. 



Reference is also made to the blue-backed trout, Salmo 

 oquassa, and to the land-locked smelt, and the propagation 

 of both strongly urged. A good deal has been done by the 

 Commissioners in reference to distributing the former fish, 

 now confined to the Rangeley lakes and other streams and 

 ponds of the state. 



The subject of fish-ways is one that the Commissionei-s 

 consider requires further legislation, in view of the strenu- 

 ous and hitherto successful resistance to the laws already 

 enacted bv mill-owners on certain streams of the state. 



REPOET OF TOE FISH COMMISSIONERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



The report of the Fish Commissioners of New Hampshire, 

 made to the Legislature at the June session of 1876, gives 

 an account of the work done by these gentlemen in the per- 

 formance of their trust. The small amount of money at the 

 command of the Commissioners prevented the accomplish- 

 ment of all that was desirable, but they have made some 

 progress in the distribution of black bass, and in introducing 

 the wall-eyed pike. They report a considerable amount of 

 progress in the restoration of salmon to the waters of the 

 state, and look forward to a future increase in the supply as 

 a matter of much interest to the people. 



TENTH REPORT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS FISH COMMISSIONERS. 



Of the series of reports of the Fish Commissioners of 

 the several states, none are more important than those pub- 

 lished by Massachusetts, of which the tenth, for 1875, has 

 been issued. 



LTpon the much-contested question of the efficiency of the 

 fish-way at Iladley Falls in permitting the passage of shad, 

 the Commissioners maintain that the problem has been solved 

 satisfactorily in the affirmative: and as the result of a care- 

 ful examination, they state that a great number of fish, such 



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