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ermen at present prices if left for another two years to 

 have reached a satisfactory size and weight. The result- 

 ing big addition to the food product would not have cost 

 anyone a cent. 



Something more should be done by the several states 

 immediately concerned and by Canada to replenish Lake 

 Superior with whitefish. It is almost fished out as far as 

 this species is concerned, and some united action should 

 be taken at once. The international waters should be gov- 

 erned by uniform legislation by the two countries, so that 

 it will be possible to prevent waste of small trout and 

 whitefish. The taking of these valuable fish before they 

 have reached proper size should be strictly prohibited by 

 both countries. 



Discussion 



Mr. E. T. D. Chambers, Quebec, Canada: May I be allowed to ask 

 if the author of the paper can give us the date at which the gentleman 

 whom he styles the "Father of Fish Culture" in Canada began his 

 operations ? 



Mr. Nevin: He began about 1866. 



Mr. Chambers : As a matter of historical accuracy, if the state- 

 ment made in this paper is correct, I wish to correct a statement I made 

 in the "History of the Canadian Fisheries," published about eight or ten 

 years ago, in which I stated that the father of fish culture in Canada 

 was Richard Nettle, who commenced operations in the city of Quebec — 

 only in an experimental way, of course, at his own place of residence 

 in the city. He succeeded in hatching in the late fifties, and the result 

 of his operations has been published in his book entitled "Salmon Fish- 

 ing in Canada," published by Lovell, of Montreal, in the year 1859 or 

 1860. The facts which I mention in the work to which I refer are also 

 recorded by Mr. Rodd, of this city, in a paper which he read before the 

 Canadian Fisheries Association — I do not remember the date — at its 

 meeting last year at a point on Lake Erie. The facts can be very easily 

 ascertained because Mr. Nettle's book is in print ; and there is also in 

 existence a report made to Sir Edmund Head, who was then Governor 

 General of Canada. I am enabled to fix the date approximately because 

 of the fact that Sir Edmund Head's only son was drowned while bath- 

 ing in the St. Maurice River at the Falls of Shawinigan, and Sir Ed- 

 mund was so heartbroken that he returned to England. That was before 

 1860 and Sir Edmund Head was a great patronizer of Richard Nettle 

 in connection with his first hatchery and the operations which he carried 



