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without doubt, do well. Chautauque Lake, near the divid- 

 ing line between Pennsylvania and New York, could likely 

 be stocked with them ; at all events such an enterprise is 

 worth the experiment. 



The following interesting account of the Sebago salmon 

 is taken from the Maine Fish Commissioners' Report : 



" This species was once quite abundant in the waters 

 connected with Sebago Lake; but torch and spear, and 

 exclusion from the spawning-grounds, have made great 

 inroads on their numbers. Probably not more than a 

 thousand of them are now taken annually. Nathan Cum- 

 mings, Esq., of Portland, has given us much information 

 about these fish. He says that when the Cumberland and 

 Oxford Canal was building, during the first winter the 

 workmen sent away fifty barrels of them. Mr. Cummings 

 used to fish for them very successfully at the outlet of Se- 

 bago Lake, but for some years he has tried them there to 

 no purpose. They are still brought in limited numbers 

 into Portland each spring and fall, mostly from the lower 

 part of Crooked and Songo rivers. 



" The principal breeding-grounds of this salmon at the 

 present time are on Crooked river, below Edes Falls, in the 

 town of Naples, and in Bear brook, at the head of Long 

 Pond, near Harrison village. They make their first appear- 

 ance in the direction of their spawning-beds about the 1st 

 of September; in Crooked river a little earlier than in 

 Bear brook. In the latter stream the males come first 

 alone, and run back and forth in the mouth of the brook 

 until the last of the month, when they are joined by a few 



