REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF PISH AND FISHERIES. XXI 



Preparatory to the work of the following year, in the i)ropagation of 

 the Atlantic salmon, adult lish were purchased conjointly with the 

 Maine Fish Commission, and impounded at Dead Brook. As in the 

 previous season, use was made of a steamer in their collection, but the 

 work was longer protracted. The number of fish secured was 222, of 

 which 19 were lost during transfer, owing to the hot weather; and by 

 the close of the year there was a further loss of 12. 



Green Lake Station, Maine (H. H. Buck, Superintendent). 



. The water-supply liume, contracted for toward the close of the last 

 fiscal year, was completed and accepted by the end of September, and 

 tlie hatchery and dwelling-house by the end of the following mouth. 

 During October the troughs and other apparatus in use at Mann 

 Brook were transferred to the new station. Two of the temporary 

 dwellings at Mann Brook were taken down and the material used in 

 the construction of a temporary ice-house. 



The other work under the appropriation for the establishment of the 

 station consisted in graveling the banks of tlie reservoir, laying out 

 roads, grading the gnmnds, improving the old buildings on the prop- 

 erty, and constructing troughs and other apparatus required for the use 

 of the station. A conduit was also laid under the south reservoir pond 

 so as to permit the water to be run directly from the flume to the sup- 

 ply pipe leading into the hatchery, for the purpose of insuring a supply 

 of clear water when the reservoir is muddy from storms, and also to 

 insure a lower temperature of the water during hot weather. 



Pending the comi^letion of the hatchery and o'ther constructions at 

 the station, the use of the temporary station at Mann Brook was con- 

 tinued. At the beginning of the year the fry of the landlocked salmon 

 kept for rearing from the previous season were estin)ated at 120,000. 

 A good proportion of these were successfully carried through the sum- 

 mer to the fall, when they were distributed, with the exception of 4,000, 

 which were retained tlirough the winter in troughs, and in the follow- 

 ing spring placed in the reservoir ponds at Great Brook, where their 

 growth was rapid. Of those distributed, 20,000 were delivered in 

 November to car No. 3 for planting in Vermont waters, the loss en route 

 being estimated at 5,000. The remainder, estimated at 80,000, were 

 planted during the latter part of October; 16,000 being placed in Patten 

 Pond, Ellsworth, and 64,000 in Green Lake and its tributaries, princi- 

 pally Great Brook. 



In the month of October preparations were made at Great Brook for 

 the capture and impounding of spawning fish, the first fish being cap- 

 tured October 18 and the last November 18. The taking of eggs began 

 November 5 and ended November 19, 148,000 being secured. Ninety- 

 one fish were handled, 45 of which were females. Attempts were also 

 made to secure spawning fish at the other inlets of the lake by means 

 of net pounds, but withoufsuccess; nor was any evidence obtained of 

 the spawning of the fish at any other i)la<'e on the lake than Great 



