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had engaged. They could not find places to get enough eggs. 

 Now the waste of eggs from fish that have been caught is not so 

 great as claimed. Of course there is a waste with unripe fish. 



Dr. Parker: This interminable fight that comes up almost 

 every session when anything is said about protection has lasted 

 through my whole experience with the commission of some 14 or 

 15 years. There seems to be antagonism existing between the 

 commercial fishermen and the Commission in some way. It is 

 hardly definite enough to locate, but it is something that ought 

 not to exist. It is just as necessary to catch fish as it is to plant 

 them, and that it what we plant them for. And it seems to me 

 when the connnercial fishermen can understand this, there will be 

 nothing really antagonistic between them at all. We had the 

 same fight at Lansing when I was on the Commission and parted 

 U'orse friends than we were when we met. It seems to me as 

 though some broad form of education might be had of some 

 specific sort — I cannot say legislation for they won't take it — we 

 never have been able to propose any legislation but what hurts 

 somebody somewhere; and so it seems as though if we could 

 take a l)road ground and in some way bring about a better 

 understanding it would l)e better. We all know very well, and 

 especially the fishermen who have the largest interests at stake 

 personally, what is necessary, and it seems to me that we might 

 formulate some broad plan by which the commercial fishermen 

 and this association and kindred associations can bring about 

 some way by which fish can be protected it would be a good 

 thing, if it is possible, if not let us give it up. 



Mr. Stranahan: So far as whitefish are concerned, during 

 the seven years I have been at Put-in-Bay the eggs lost have 

 amounted to practically nothing. 



Mr. Nevin: In Lake Superior we have been planting fish 

 and i can truthfully say there were more whitefish caught last 

 year than in the last four years put together. We have there the 

 mile limit and last year they were fishing with seines and they 

 caught as high as ten or fifteen barrels of small fish, but of 

 course we nabbed them in time. As long as they catch the 

 small ones we cannot expect to have the big ones. 



Mr. Dickerson: That is just what they have been doing in 

 Mic' igan. We found they had been catching whitefish at 

 Mackinaw that took eight to a pound. The size of the mesh has 

 grown smaller, they have kept getting the mesh down and down 



