Salmon caught with hook off Maine coast

Destruction of salmon by seals

Evidences of results of propagation

Extension of salmon-hatching operations on the Penobscot

Planting of quinnat salmon and steelhead trout in Maine streams





During the months of August and September, 1896, the writer visited
the shores of Penobscot River and Bay in the interests of the United
States Fish Commission, for the purpose of securing data regarding
the condition and extent of the salmon, shad, and alewife fisheries.
Special attention was given to the salmon fishery, as the Penobscot
is now the only important salmon stream on the Atlantic coast of the
United States and has been the field for very extensive fish-cultural
operations on the part of the Fish Commission. A large majority of the
owners of the salmon weirs and nets along both sides of the bay and
river were interviewed and accurate accounts of their fishing obtained,
together with their observations as to the effect of artificial
propagation on the supply.

The history and methods of the salmon fishery of this basin have been
well presented in papers by Mr. Charles G. Atkins, superintendent of