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artificial propagation. The central authorities should have power to modify 
the fishing regulations pending legislative action. Such a system might be 
made self-supporting. 
6. The need of more exact knowledge of the habits of the whitefish and 
of all the conditions under which it lives is very evident. In the interest of 
the fisheries these matters should be subjects of investigations to be carried 
on under federal auspices, with suitable equipment and for a long period of 
years. \ 
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