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merstogo to Sheboygan Bay and other points on Lake 

 Ontario with their wares in November and bring back 

 white fish and sahnon-trout and distribute them." 



"The question is what are we to do? If we can 

 secure aid from the Legislature, we may accompHsh 

 somethinor or this work ou^ht to be abandoned. If the 

 people living in the States bordering on the great 

 Lakes have no res^ard as to what becomes of the fish- 

 eries, I do not know why we should lie awake nights 

 waiting for the time to come, if it is the desire of the 

 people that the Lakes should be fished out." 



"It is not said in the spirit of pessimism, but in view 

 of the facts in the case, and I am only too glad to 

 know that Wisconsin has taken some action in this 

 matter, and I believe that the new Board is going to 

 give that Commission a new lease on life. We are too 

 content to sit down and let matters take their course, 

 A Commission always marks out a course of policy. 

 It must not be content to put into the waters a lot of 

 fish, but it must give protection. I have the pleasure 

 to say we have recommended that resolutions be passed 

 for the last six years that this be done. The duty 

 of Commissioners is to hatch and plant fish ; the duty 

 of the Legislature is to protect the fisheries. I have 

 hopes that we shall have such laws passed. He says 

 we have it. They adjourn without giving us any en- 

 couragement whatever. As an instance of what be- 

 comes of our white fish: in 1892 our State did not 

 obtain from Lake Michigan but 3,592 pounds of white 

 fish; in ICS95, 19,500 pounds were caught. Every 

 man that had a pound net stored away took it out and 

 caught these little fish and sold them, k^ishermen tell 

 us that the planting has renewed the fish. ' Why, how 

 do you know it ?' * We take in a school of fish all of 

 the same size." 



'• Discouragements we have to meet, and we hope 



