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fish, shown at Albany, the smaller measured fifteen and one- 

 quarter inches, weight one pound and nine ounces, while the 

 larger measured sixteen and a quarter inches, weighing one 

 pound, twelve and a half ounces. With the customary allow- 

 ance of one-eighth for the shrinkage by evisceration, the 

 smaller fish would weigh one pound twelve ounces, the 

 larger one pound fifteen and a half ounces plus. The latter 

 fish presumably was, when taken from the water, a fish of 

 proper size to be taken under the law. 



List of specimens in Washington, as shown by reports: 



Name of Lake • Length Pounds 



Lake of Woods 21 in. 2y 2 



Champlain 15 in. 1*4 



Champlain 20 in. 2}4 



Michigan 11^ in. 7 oz. 



Erie 20-% in. 3% 



Michigan 14V4 in. 12 oz. 



Michigan 14}4 in. 14 oz. 



Herrings 



Herrings from Lake Michigan, 13i/> in. weighing 10 oz.; 

 13}4 m -> weighing 13 oz.; IS 1 /?, in., 14 oz. 



From Lake Ontario — 12 in., 8 oz. ; 14 in., 16 oz. 



Lake Huron — 1 1 in., 5 oz. 



That the first appearance upon the spawning beds of the 

 whitefish, according to Dr. Jordan, is not the best evidence 

 of its maturity is strengthened by Government reports of fe- 

 males taken in Lakes Michigan and Huron from 1904 to 

 1911, inclusive. Females taken, 39,789; females stripped, 

 29,485; males taken, 75,821. There is no record of number 

 of males treated or handled. Presumably not all rejected 

 females were immature; however it is fair to assume that a 

 large percentage were immature, thereby strengthening the 

 opinion of many fish culturists that the statement of the 

 late Frank N. Clark, that a mature fish should weigh two 



