FOREWORD 



At the second annual meeting of the Tri-State 

 Fishery Conference in 1946, a special committee was 

 appointed to assemble existing information on bait 

 culture and to assign specific research to each agency 

 for that season. This bulletin presents the results 

 of the work to date. 



The following men associated with the committee 

 members have done much of the actual work of assembling 

 and compiling the data. John Dobie of the Minnesota 

 Fisheries Research unit was given the task of organizing 

 the original manuscript and of fitting into it the 

 results of current experiments conducted by the con- 

 tributing agencies. He also incorporated portions of 

 a Minnesota report written by Janus Ridley and has 

 compiled experimental data from published literature. 

 0. Lloyd Meehean, Chief, Division of Game-fish and 

 Hatcheries, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, prepared 

 the section on pond construction. George Washburn of 

 the Michigan Institute for Fisheries Research con- 

 tributed much to the revision of the original outline 

 based on his early experience as a minnow dealer and 

 his more recent experimental work in minnow culture, 

 especially with suckers and creek chubs. Elmer Herman 

 of the Wisconsin Conservation Department made available 

 his findings on the feeding of minnows in holding tanks. 

 Raymond Johnson of the Fisheries Research uni t wrote the 

 identification section and edited the manuscript, 



Tri-State Minnow Committee 



George Sprecher, Chairman 

 D. John O'Donnell 



Wisconsin Conservation Department 



Norman Moe 



R. E, Johnson 



Minnesota Conservation Department 



Fred A. Westerman 

 Albert S. Hazzard 



Michigan Department of Conservation 



0. Lloyd Meehean 

 C. F. Culler 



Fish and Wildlife Service 



