1^ Tzvcnty-si.vth Annual Meeting 



ever a convalescent coaxed l^ack a capricious appetite, that most 

 famous of all dishes a Planked Whitefish. 



Mr. Clark: I want to refer one point in that paper. He 

 spoke of some five hundred thousand or a million dollars being- 

 expended by the United States which I think is too much. Won't 

 you please refer to your figures again, xMr. Tomlin? 



Mr. Tomlin : "To apply to the existing deficiency the United 

 States Commission has expended $62,000 — " 



Mr. Clark: Have you got your figures authoritatively? 



Mr. Tomlin: I got them from Conmiissioner Brice. 



Mr. Bower: I was in Duluth and had charge of the putting 

 up of that hatchery. The contract for the building, I don't 

 remember exactly what it was, but it was between $10,000 and 

 $11,000. That is all that was expended at that point. 



Mr. Tomlin: That is on Duluth alone. I said the Great 

 Lakes. 



A/[r. Stranahan: There nuist be some mistake somewhere 

 You take Alpena and Duluth and that is all there is substantially. 

 There is a station on Lake Ontario, however. 



Mr. Bower: Mr. Tomlin has drawn an entirely wrong con- 

 clusion from the figures I used. I do not claim because we 

 hatch five hundred to a thousand times as many fish as nature 

 does from the same number of eggs that we are going to get 

 from five hundred to a thousand times as many adults from 

 them. There is, oi course, an immense waste. I think Prof. 

 Reighard showed this morning that it woukl be absolutely impos- 

 sible for the waters of these lakes to support such an amount of 

 fish. They would mostly starve to death. It is fair to pre- 

 sume that a hundred years ago, before fishing was commenced 

 in the (ireat Lakes, they held all that the waters could possil)ly 

 support and the numbers of whilefish then in the lakes or of the 

 lake trout or other valuable species was certainly below the num- 

 ber Mr. Tomlin mentions. 



Mr. Dickerson: I would like lo ask Mr. Tomlin how the com- 

 mission can do injustice to the commercial fishermen bv seizing 

 their nets if they are fishing legally? So long as the conuuer- 

 cial fishermen are respecting the laws of their states they are not 

 . disturbed. 



