ATKINS THE SALMON AND ITS ARTIFICIAL CULTURE. 319 



Record of salmon soJdfrom weirs Nos. 161 and 162, south end of JVctmore Island — Cont'd. 



Date. 



1873. 



Mayl 



May 5 



May 8 



May 9 



May 12 



M.iy 15 



MaV 19 



May 21 



May 22 



May 26 



May 27 



May 23 



June 2 



June 5 



June 7 



June 9 



June 11 



June 12 



June 13 



June 14 



June 16 



June 17 



June 18 



June 19 



June20 



June 21 



June 23 



June 24 



June 25 



June 26 



54i 

 39i 

 50* 

 124 



9i 



36i 



49J 

 29 i 



sli 



2l| 

 13i 

 53J 



127 



158 



176* 

 41 



121 



123 

 76 

 99 



202 



156 



lOf* 

 7U 

 85' 



144 

 203i 



18.1 

 19.7 

 16.8 

 12.5 



9.2 

 18.2 

 16.4 



9.8 

 17.1 

 10.7 

 13. 5 

 13.4 

 14.1 

 13.1 

 14.7 

 13.6 

 13.4 

 15.3 

 12.6 

 12.1 

 12.6 

 14.1 

 12.0 

 14.3 

 12.1 



14.4 



13.7 

 13.5 



Date. 



1873 



June 27 



June 28 



June 30 



Jiily 1 



Julv2 



Julys 



Jul V 4 



July 7 



July 8 



July 9 



July 10 



July 13 



July 15 



July 16 



July 17 



July 17 



July 26 



July 30 



July 31 



SUMMARY. 



May 



June 



July 



Total 



28 

 270 

 151 



416 



26i 

 179 

 1601 

 402^ 

 113J 

 123* 

 320* 

 185 



91i 



59 



54i 



324 



40 

 42* 

 17 



421f 

 2, 581J 

 1, 720i 



4, 7231 



13.4 

 13.2 

 12.7 

 8.0 

 12.9 

 12.6 

 12.3 

 11.8 

 12.3 

 15.2 



11.8 

 13.5 

 16.2 



13.0 

 13.3 

 14.2 

 17.0 



15.0 

 13.4 

 12.1 



14. — SAINT GEORGE RIVER. 



Salmon were plenty in this river fifty years ago, and considerable 

 numbers were cauglit twenty -five years later. But they gradually 

 ceased to frequent the river, and fcfr the last ten or fifteen years 

 they have rarely been seen in it.* Since the building of the dams that 

 have mainly contributed to. the extermination of the salmon, fish-ways 

 have been maintained for alewives, and have answered their purpose 

 passably well, but they do not appear to have met the requirements of 

 salmon. 



15. — IMEDOMAO RIVER. 



This river was originally the breeding ground of the salmon and ale- 

 wives, but not of shad. Salmon were abundant, more so than in the 

 Saint George. Sixty years ago the inhabitants used to dip them below 

 the lower dam at the head of the tide. More recently, the owner of a 

 mill further up the. stream, at the upper dam in Waldoboro' Village, 

 used to catch them by shutting his gate and taking as many as a dozen 

 at a time from a basin in the rock below the dam, in which they were 

 left by the subsidence of the water. For the past forty years it is be- 



* Letter of A. M. Wetherljee. 



