34 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF JISH AND FISHERIES. 



STATION REPORTS. 

 Green Lake Station, Maine (E. E. Race, Superintendent). 



As the water in Green Lake has been very low for several summers, 

 and particularly low during the past season, it became necessary to 

 construct a floating wharf at Mann Brook as a landing. A scow 26 

 feet long was also built for transporting fish from the station to the 

 railroad station at Green Lake, the spawning-house which had been 

 used at Great Brook was removed to the station and fitted up as a resi- 

 dence for one of the laborers, and the old hatchery building, which 

 had been removed from the head of the lake to the station in 1898, was 

 remodeled and fitted up as a cottage. A large amount of miscella- 

 neous work was also accomplished by the station force, including 

 repairs to the hatchery, ponds, foreman's residence, and the steamer 

 Senator. 



The fish on hand at the beginning of the year are shown by the 

 following table : 



Species. 



Calendar j^ear in which hatched. 



1899. 



1898. 



1897. 



1898. 



Landlocked salmon 



311,133 



397 

 5,126 



829 





277 



Steelhead trout - 



500 





Brook trout 















The young landlocked salmon were carried through the summer 

 in troughs and ponds with remarkable success; the distribution 

 made during August and September amounted to 309,274, showing a 

 loss of 1,849, or less than 0.5 per cent of the number on hand at the 

 beginning of the year. These fish were fed chiefly on beef liver, 

 purchased in Bangor and shipped to the station b}^ express three times 

 a week. When the landlocked salmon of 1898 were again counted in 

 November there were found to be 301, of which 176 were albinos; 50 

 were furnished in February to the Boston Sportsmen's Association, and 

 at the end of the year only 24 of the lot remained. Of those hatched 

 in 1896 but one was lost during the year. They were held in the south 

 reservoir and made a fine growth, measuring from 12 to 14 inches in 

 length. It is hoped that they will yield eggs next season. 



The brook trout retained froiii the hatch of 1898 are held in one of 

 the small ponds at the rear of the hatchery, and though apparently 

 healthy, they have grown very slowly. During the summer 349 of 

 them died on account of the high temperature of the water. 



The two lots of steelhead trout resulting from eggs hatched in 1897 

 and 1898 have done very well since they were transferred from the 

 shallow ponds to the reservoir, where there is a considerable depth of 

 w^ater; of the younger lot 3,653 were liberated in Rocky Pond in 

 November, and at the close of the year there were on hand 493 of the 

 hatch of 1897 and 1,368 of the hatch of 1898. They were examined 

 in April and the males were found to be well developed, about 75 per 



