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bv the Fnitecl States Fish Commission, it is to be hoped that this 

 incomi)arable fish will find suitable habitations in eastern 

 streams to delight the angler with its beauty and gameness. It 

 rises to the fly eagerly and is as game as the trout. 



DISCUSSION OF DR. HENSHALL's PAPER. 



]\Ir. Pealjod}' : Dr. Hensliall's paper that was read just be- 

 fore the noon adjournment has had no discussion at all, and 

 there are two points I would like to have considered. Two fish 

 are named there, the grayling and the steelhead trout that he 

 speaks of most enthusiastically. He says that the steel head 

 trout is the gamiest and best of the trout species of which he 

 knows, and especially in the Eocky Mountains, and he also re- 

 fers to the productivity of the grayling, and says that they are 

 plentiful and fill the streams out there. I would like to ask some 

 of these Michigan men who know about the grayling, if they 

 liave stopped raising grayling, and also what the experience of 

 any other fish culturist is regarding the steelhead trout. It 

 seems to me if they are all that the doctor claims there, and are 

 so easily reared and got from the hatchery in Montana, that they 

 ought to be distributed and ought to be put into Michigan and 

 Wisconsin waters esjDecially. The commission gave us a quan- 

 tity of eggs which we hatched and put in the northern waters of 

 Wisconsin ver}^ successfully. 



Mr. Clark : I can state that the United States Fish Com- 

 mission is distrilmting the Montana gra^ding in Michigan al- 

 though we don't know as yet what the result is, for I do not think 

 that any have been taken, and unless a scientific examination is 

 made it would be difficult to tell whether they arc Montana or 

 Michigan grayling. We are planting them so far only in the 

 ])rinci])al streams that formerly pontained grayling, such as the 

 AuSal)le Eiver and Pere Marquette or branches, and unless 

 otherwise ordered l»y tlie Commission I shall continue to do so 

 unlil we see some results from those streams. They are a fine 

 fish, and we have successfully raised them at Northville. There 

 were on cxhiliilion at Buffalo last season some two year old Mon- 

 tana grayling that had been reared at Northville, and I think 

 every one who saw them will say that they were very nice fish, 

 and from my observation of them at that age I do not see any 



