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]\Ii'. Lydell : About six times as large. 



Mr. Seymour Bower: I think it is misleading to call these 

 specimens fingerlings. I have called them advanced fry to dis- 

 ting-uish them from larger or smaller fish. The term advanced 

 fry or baby fingerlings might he used, but to call them finger- 

 lings is misleading. 



Mr. Clark : This matter of the bass fry and bass fingerling 

 might possibly lead to as much discussion as years and years ago 

 when hardly any of you were at the meeting, when we had the 

 trout fingerling and fry discussion. I fought and fought and 

 bled over that ground — I did not die — I am still here. (Laugh- 

 ter). Most of the rest of them, poor fellows, are dead, but 1 am 

 still on earth. Now, I would suggest and if necessary make a 

 motion, (of course you will not consider me in that motion) that 

 a committee of three of the American Fisheries Society be 

 appointed to settle the question of when the young bass shall be 

 called a fry and when they shall be called fingerlings, for future 

 definition, not only for the Fish Commission, l)ut for all the 

 state commissions and private hatcheries. 



Mr. Seymour Bower : I do not think the committee should 

 be confined to the terms fry and fingerling — they might wish to 

 recommend or coin a new term for small bass midway in size 

 between fry and fingerlings. 



Mr. Clark : Certainly. 



General Bryant : Have the committee establish a standard of 

 weights and measures? (Laughter). 



Mr. Lydell : Last year I called them baby fingerling in my 

 report to the Michigan Fish Commission, and I was not satisfied 

 with that, and so this year I just shipped them out as fry until 

 they were fingerling. 



Motion unanimously carried and Mr. F. M. Clark, Mr. Sey- 

 mour Bower and W. DeC. Eavenel appointed as such commit lee. 



]\Ir. Beeman: In regard to the question of fry and finger- 

 ling, our bass when they arose from the bed were black in color 

 and they continued black until tlioy were altoul an inch long; 

 then they changed and gTew lighter in color and took on tlie 

 natural color of the adult. Tt strikes me that ther(> would be an 

 opportunity to draw the line, and that after tliey change tlie 



