XXXII REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



l^ropagation must begin the work. But unless this is supplemented by 

 the enactment and enforcement of laws forbidding absolutely the cap- 

 ture of the fish for a period of four to six years, and then establishing 

 a close time of several days in each week up to a certain period, after 

 which no fish at all shall be taken, the efforts now being made might as 

 well be intermitted first as last. There is no object in going to the ex- 

 pense for the purj)ose of furnishiug a few fishermen with a supply 

 of fish to be sold for their benefit, and not administered for the good 

 of the community. The magnitude of the results will be in direct pro- 

 portion to the enactment and enforcement of the proper legislation. 



Schoodic salmon {Salmo salar, subsp. Sebago.') 



Grand Lake Stream Station. — Of the various species of Salmonidce, 

 treated by the United States Fish Commission, the fish variously known 

 as landlocked salmon, Schoodic salmon, Sebago salmon, Glover's salmon, 

 Win-ni-nish, &c., is one that is mosteagerly sought after by State fish com- 

 missioners, fishing clubs, and fish culturists generally. An exact miniatnre 

 of the sea salmon or Salmo salar in appearance, flavor, game qualities, &c., 

 the difference in size was for a longtime considered sulficient to establish 

 it as a distinct species. Late researches, however, prosecuted by Profes- 

 sor Gill and Professor Jordan, among the large collections at Washing- 

 ton, have satisfied these gentlemen that it must be regarded as a 

 dwarfed form, hardly even a variety, of the Salmo salar, owing its reduced 

 l^roportions to its abode in lakes or i^onds, and consequently more lim- 

 ited range than it would have in the ocean, although its continual sojourn 

 in fresh water may have had something to do with it. The westernmost 

 locality where it is found on the New England coast appears to be Se- 

 bago Pond, a large body of water which discharges into Casco Bay, 

 north of Portland. Here it is called Sebago salmon or Sebago trout, 

 and attains a considerably larger size than in most other waters, as 

 in the Sebec Lakes, northwest of Bangor, in certain i)onds in the Mount 

 Desert region, and the Schoodic Lakes of Maine and l^ew Brunswick, 

 which are perhaps its best-known localities. It is also seen in the Saint 

 John's River and certain ponds of ^STew Brunswick and j^Tova Scotia, as 

 well as in the tributaries of the Saint Lawrence. To what extent it is 

 taken on the south shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence or on the coast 

 of Labrador, I am unable to say. 



In various parts of the British provinces it is known as the Win-ni- 

 nish, which would perhaps be a much more appropriate appellation than 

 the term landlocked salmon, since other species of the Salmonidse pre- 

 sent themselves under similar circumstances. A similar ^^ariety occurs 

 in Sweden, and i)ossibly elsewhere in Europe, and relating to the same 

 species, Salmo salar. 



In the opinion of many persons, and especially of Mr. Samuel Wilmot, 

 the salmon of Lake Ontario belongs to the same division, although in 

 size it more nearly corresponds with the sea-going salmon. Formerly 



