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creased enormously. In Maine, the results from planting land 

 locked salmon are good, but all of the ponds and lakes are heavily 

 fished. 



An examination of some of the tributaries of Lake George was 

 made with special reference to the progress of the experiment of 

 acclimating the land locked salmon. Incidentally, the investiga- 

 tion included West Brook, Northwest Bay brook, and a private 

 hatchery near the village of Lake George. During the stay at 

 Northwest Bay brook a rock obstruction on private property 

 belonging to Mr. Loins was removed with his consent, and thus 

 the principal barrier to the ascent of the salmon to the upper 

 waters of the brook was overcome. The obstruction was dyna- 

 mited by Mr. Birney Burnett with the result of forming a four- 

 foot clearway for the fish over a rather difficult rapid which has 

 since proved sufficient to enable the salmon to ascend the falls at 

 ordinary stages of water. 



Many young salmon, from five inches to eight inches long, were 

 seen in the pools near the falls at a distance of about two and one- 

 half miles from the lake. The presence of these little salmon avus 

 known to Mr. W. K. Bixby, of St. Louis and Lake George, who 

 had caught individuals and released them without injury when 

 fly fishing for brook trout. It is almost beyond question that most 

 of the anglers and all of the small boys who fish in the tributaries 

 of Lake George capture and keep many of these salmon, mistaking 

 them for trout. Hardly anyone that we met was able to identify 

 land locked salmon between seven and ten inches in length and 

 the fish were regarded as some kind of trout which could be 

 legally caught. This explains the apparent lack of evidence of 

 the success of our experiment in planting the salmon. A number 

 of large salmon had been caught in the lake; but for some reason 

 anglers who capture the fish are reluctant to make known the 

 fact, and for a long time the propriety of continuing the planting 

 had been questioned. It is highly probable that the salmon is 

 beginning to establish itself in the lake and some of its tributaries, 

 and it is desirable to plant fingerlings in larger numbers. The 

 State has not furnished more than 23,000 fingerlings for Lake 

 George in any one year, and these have been developed from eggs 

 furnished bv the United States Bureau of Fisheries. 



