ATKINS THE SALMON AND ITS AKTIFICIAL CULTURE. 6 



Eccord of salmon sold from weirs Nos. 1(51 and 162, south end of Wetmore Island — Cont'd. 



Date. 



1873 



May 1 



May 5 



May 8 



May 9 



May 12 



May 15 



May 19 



May 21 



May 22 



May 26 



May 27 



May 28 



June 2 



June 5 



June 7 



June 9 



June 11 



June 12 



Juno 13 



June 14 



June 16 



June 17 



June 18 



June 19 



June 20 



Juno21 



June 23 



June 24 



June 25 



June 26 



541 

 39i 

 50i 

 12* 

 9i 

 364^ 

 49i 

 29'i 

 5ll 

 2l| 

 VM 

 53t 



127 



158 



176i 

 41 



121 



123 

 76 

 99 



202 



156 



108^ 

 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 



July 1 



July 2 



July3 



July 4 



July 7 



July 8 



July 9 



July 10 



July 13 



July 15 



July 16 



July 17 



Julvl7 



July 26 



July 30 



July 31 



June 



July 



Total 



28 

 270 

 151 



416 



26i 

 179 

 1601 

 402* 

 113i 

 123A 

 320-J 

 185 



91A 



59 



54i 



32* 



40 



42^ 

 17 



421f 

 2, 56H 

 1, 720J 



4, 723| 



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 GrEOEaE EIVER. 



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

 numbers were caiiglit tweuty-flve years later. But tliey gradually 

 ceased to frequent the river, and for 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 ale wives, and have answered their jjurpose 

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

 salmon. 



15. — MEDOMAO 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 iuhabitants 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. Wetherbee. 



