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Lake Ontario is a little more depleted; but the wliitefisli are not 

 all out of Lake Ontario. Whitefish have been caught in Lake 

 Ontario every single year. 



Mr. Townsend : Yes, but the laws of New York so restrict 

 t'onimercial fishing in Lake Ontario that you cannot tell anything 

 about it. 



Mr. Clark: If we should plant billions of fish in Lake 

 Ontario could we prove any more clearly than we already have 

 in Lake Erie, that our fish grow there ? 



Dr. Parker : It seems to me you could, simply from the fact 

 that an exhaustive examination of Lake Ontario should be made 

 iirst on a really scientific basis, and then stock it in that way, 

 and then if you could prohibit fishing for five years and then 

 found that the fish had increased there, you would certainly have 

 verified in that lake and presumably for all other lakeS; the fact 

 of the growth of the fish planted. That is all that I contend for 

 — not that I am inimical to planting fish — not by any means. 



The President : The catch on the Detroit River year before 

 last was bigger than for years before and was all of such uniform 

 size that it is almost positive evidence that they were planted 

 tish. 



