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on at his residence in the city of Quebec. His work may not have been 

 upon a large scale but he certainly started the idea and in quite a prac- 

 tical manner. He took salmon eggs from the St. Charles river and 

 hatched them at his place in Quebec ; he also hatched trout eggs taken 

 from waters in the province of Quebec. [Mr. Chambers later said that 

 he had ascertained the exact year in which Nettle hatched trout at 

 Quebec and planted them in Lake Beauport, anH^ tTiat it was in 1857.] 



Mr. Wm. C. Adams, Boston, Mass.: Mr. Nevin spoke about the 

 question of transporting fry. 



Mr. Nevin : Those were fingerlings from six months to one year old, 

 from three to five inches in length. 



Mr. Adams : We have had difficulty in transporting small finger- 

 ling fish from a hatchery over a distance of about eighty miles to a 

 rearing plant. When in forty gallon cans we lost our shipments, but 

 when in ten gallon cans we had no trouble. 



Mr. Nevin : This last fall we transferred a carload of about 10,000 

 fingerlings to the Wild Rose hatchery. These fish were placed in troughs 

 in the hatchery building. I watched them for two hours and there was no 

 sign of any fish dying; they were in perfect condition, and I went to 

 supper. I had not been gone fifteen minutes when the foreman of the 

 hatchery came rushing up to the hotel, telling me the fish were acting badly, 

 a lot of them turning on their sides as if they had spasms, and beginning 

 to die. I went to the hatchery with him, ordered several pails of salt placed 

 in the troughs, and left the fish in this solution for some five minutes 

 and they all revived. In fact, we lost only about 75 fish out of the 

 10,000 transferred. In my opinion, if I had not been on hand and used the 

 salt as we did, we would have lost from one-half to two-thirds of the 

 fish, judging by their looks when I reached the hatching house. 



Mr. Adams: Would that be practical treatment for fingerlings as 

 ■small as an inch and a half in length? 



Mr. Nevin : Yes. That has been happening to us for years. In 

 transporting fish we have better results in November than in any other 

 month. 



