XLIV REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP FISH AND FISHERIES. 



visitors from Bar Harbor, Baugor, Ellsworth, aud other points. They 

 are in excellent condition and have ' cached a length of from 5 to 6 

 inches. It is not unusual to find three or four white salmon during 

 the season among several hundred thousand normally colored fish, but 

 they are more numerous this year than ever before. As they increase 

 in size their color gradually changes from white to straw. 



Early in the summer arrangements were made for collecting eggs of 

 the landlocked salmon, brook trout, golden trout, and lake trout, at 

 Winkempaugh Brook, Mann Brook, Patton Pond, Great Brook, Flood 

 Pond, and Coldstream Pond. The traps and pens were repaired and 

 operations commenced early in September with the following results: 



Point of collection. 



Species. 



F^sh. 



Eggs. 



Winkempaugh Brook Brook trout 



Do Landlocked salmon . 



Patton Pond Brook trout 



Do ' Landlocked salmon 



Flood Pond 



Do 



Green Lake 



Do 



Coldstream Pond 



Do 



Brook trout 



Golden trout 



Brook trout 



Landlocked salmon 



Lake trout I 1,830 



Landlocked salmon 32 



98, 000 



128, 000 



99, 000 



11, 000 



25,000 



4,000 



2,000 



228, 000 



1,000,000 



S5, 000 



In addition to the eggs collected from the points mentioned above, 

 100,000 brook-trout eggs were purchased in March from dealers in 

 Massachusetts, and 10,000 black-spotted trout eggs were presented by 

 Mr. J. Annin, jr., of Caledonia, N. Y. The eggs collected at the field 

 stations were all transferred to the hatchery as soon as practicable 

 after being fertilized, except those at Enfield, which were held in the 

 State hatchery until the eye-spots developed. The losses were very 

 light except in the case of the brook trout, which commenced hatching 

 in March and finished early in May. It being impracticable to rear 

 brook trout at this station on account of the high temperature of the 

 water during the summer, all of the fry on hand were distributed in 

 May and Juno, 100,000 being planted. The heaviest mortality was 

 among eggs collected at Winkempaugh Brook, due to the loss of nearly 

 all the male fish as the result of a severe freshet. 



Of landlocked salmon eggs 83,500 were shipped during winter; the 

 balance were held at the station and hatched with comparatively small 

 losses. At the end of the season 311,125 strong, healthy fry remained 

 on hand, which will be distributed as usual during the fall mouths. 



Owing to high water in Flood Pond but few golden trout eggs were 

 collected, and the resulting fry were liberated in Holbrook Pond and 

 Green Lake during the s))ring. 



The experience of the past few years has again demonstrated the fact 

 that the method of measuring eggs to determine their number is not 

 accurate, owing to great variation in the size of those obtained from 

 the different waters. It is also believed that where the eggs have 

 been measured or weighed, after having been in the troughs 100 days 



