58 FISH-CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
the remaining pair of bass in a three-gallon pail, I started by 
team for Phillips, Franklin County, forty miles away. On the 
route one of them died. The remarkable vitality of the bass 1s 
exhibited in a strong light in view of the mode of capture, long 
and difficult transportation and mid-summer temperature. 
The following October, Mr. Charles G. Atkins, then Commis- 
sioner of Fisheries of Maine, procuring my transportation box, 
took thirty-nine bass from Mr. Brown’s pond, which he placed 
in Duck pond, near Portland, Me. So far as I know these sev- 
enty-four were the first and only black bass deposited in Maine 
waters. Fourteen years have elapsed, mark the gratifying re- 
sults: The report of Hon. Henry O. Stanley, Commissioner of 
Fisheries for Maine for 1881, contains the following: ‘The black 
Bass, owing to its very game qualities, continues to be a favorite 
fish with anglers, and applications for introduction are received 
beyond the powers of the commissioners to gratify. It should 
never be introduced into any waters where there are trout, or 
from whence it can gain access to trout streams. For ponds, 
whose stock of trout has been exhausted by poachers, who mur- 
der the fish in their spawning beds, and where only yellow perch, 
bream and pickerel are left, it is invaluable. Trip pond, in Mi- 
not, Gardiner’s pond, in Wiscasset, Gun Point Ice Company 
pond, in Harpswell, Hosmer pond, in Rockport, Keazer’s Heald 
and Cushman ponds, in Lovell, and Little Pushaw, in Corinth, 
have all been stocked with bass this past year.” 
Messrs. E. M. Stillwell and Hon. H. O. Stanley, in the report 
for 1883, report as follows: ‘‘ The black bass is still growing in 
popular favor. We have had more orders this year for stocking 
ponds than in our power to fill. The great success met with at 
Pushaw lake; the number and size of the fish taken, some turn- 
ing the scales at four and one-half pounds, tend to popularize 
fish protection and fish planting; the increase in the product of 
fish, the result of the suppression of netting, all tended to pro- 
duce a great and beneficial change in the public mind, giving 
firm and even enthusiastic support, where hitherto we have been 
met by active opposition. Newport and Glenborn can now boast — 
of two of the most beautiful and productive lakes in the State, 
destined in the future to become popular places of summer re- 
