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perhaps more, the salmon are beginning to return to this 
river, and the spring accounts of the fishing at Bangor, 
made daily show that the stocking has been a success 
beyond all question, fish being taken as high as thirty 
pounds weight. The salmon and shad being anadramous 
inhabit, the fry have had to run the gauntlet not only of 
their natural enemies in the streams which they frequent 
but of the countless enemies of the ocean where they 
remain for the greater part of the year. Notwithstanding 
this condition of things the results speak for themselves. 
So much as a brief statement of what has been done 
in the sea coast fisheries of the country, and now let us 
consider for a moment the results of inland fry planting. 
It seems scarcely necessary in a body of this kind that I 
should call attention to the numerous and almost innu- 
merable inland streams of the New England, Middle and 
Northern and Northwestern States which have been 
restored from a decimated to excellently stocked streams. 
But let us go a step further. There was a fairer field 
for the demonstration of success in fry planting than has 
been afforded in my own state of Michigan, Prior to 
1841 the lower peninsular of Michigan was practicably a 
zoological desert as far as the brook trout was concerned. 
Fry planting has been going on under the efforts of the 
Michigan Fish Commission for the last eighteen years, 
but it cannot be said to have been adequately done in 
point of numbers until the years following 1880; yet for 
ten or twelve years fine trout fishing has been had in 
more than half of the counties of that peninsula, and 
with the advent of this spring the number of streams 
opened to public fishing has been largely increased, until 
it may now be said that Brook trout can be had for the 
taking in fully two-thirds of the counties. This is in some 
measure true of the state of Wisconsin. 
The Saranac lakes in New York furnish another evi- 
dence of the success of fry planting of whitefish under 
somewhat adverse circumstances, the lake in which they 
