Richfield Reaper | 1915-11-11 | Page 3 | Salmon Thrive in Maine

salmon thrive in maine success has been met by the bureau re an of fisheries in establishing h humpback ump salmon on the maine coast according cor ding to reports from that to territory arl tho the fish were planted in february 1914 many fish weighing five to seven and a halt pounds have been taken or seen in penobscot river me and twenty were captured alive by agents of the bureau near bangor and held in an effort to obtain ripe eggs from two 0 of these fish eggsware eggs egg wore swore taken september 6 and after fertilization sent th tb the craig brook hatchery for incubation local fishermen caught and ate large numbers and an employee of 0 the green lake hatchery took fifteen fish last week these had bad passed p assed through the fish ways in dams in dennys river and were dropping down stream in a spent condition at the same time both live and dead fish were observed below the dams