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whitefish and trout there is no closed season from July to the 20th of 

 November. 



Mr. Fullerton : Minnesota's law is that you cannot catch pike 

 perch before the 1st of May, and spawning is generally over before that 

 time. Any fisherman that wants to fish must do so under our direction 

 and under the conditions imposed by the law. 



Mr. Clark : Every state has its different law, and that is the 

 trouble. 



Mr. Fullerton : I have always said that. 



Mr. Clark: If we ever arrive at a point where there is a law of 

 uniform control by either the states or national government, then we 

 will have one good law for all the lakes, which we have not today. 

 For instance, under the Wisconsin law the fisherman gets a permit 

 from the superintendent of fisheries and that permit can be given at 

 any time the superintendent sees fit. This year I understand that 

 where we are going to take eggs, he will give the fishermen permission 

 to commence operations on the 20th of October. 



President: For the benefit of those not familiar with pike perch 

 eggs I will state that the same difficulties, and perhaps worse ones, are 

 encountered in taking whitefish eggs, because they are collected in No- 

 vember, the stormiest month of the year; and yet we hatch 80 per cent 

 to 90 per cent of whitefish, while the percentage of pike perch eggs is 

 much smaller. The difference is that one is an adhesive and the other 

 is a non-adhesive egg. So it does not follow that you can hatch 

 90 per cent of adhesive eggs because you can of non-adhesive ones any 

 more than it follows that a grass widow is green. 



