FIF-IEF.X'IH ANNUAT, MEETING 



Mr. Mather. — It rather surprises me that there is food for all 

 these and none for the lake trout. 



Mr. ToMLiN. — Within a few miles of Duluth some years ago, 

 some very wise men petitioned for the deposit of two hundred 

 thousand of these salmon trout, just as Mr. Fairbank speaks of 

 seven years ago. Now, I have been up to the lake several times 

 and fished there, especially to see if there was any chance of 

 getting these fish, and I was puzzled beyond my comprehension 

 to understand why in seven years there had not any of them 

 turned up. I thought surely in that seven years there would 

 have been some young ones taken. As Mr. Mather said, I think 

 the salmon family live all the way through on the same kind of 

 food, and if there was food for the brook trout there would be 

 for the salmon trout. Now, after the first plant of two hun- 

 dred and fifty thousand was put in, the next year they put in 

 another plant of two hundred and fifty thousand, so there has 

 been five hundred thousand put in there. This lake I speak of 

 has all the properties of a good lake for fish, except the lime- 

 stone formation. It is boulders there, but any quantity of lily- 

 pads and what are called fresh water plantain, and in addition 

 there are millions of chubs or shiners, and just as soon as ycni 

 get the small fish over the preliminary stage of their existence, 

 there is plenty for them to live upon. But in that seven years 

 I have yet to hear of one salmon trout being caught. I have 

 wondered a great many times why it is so. 



Mr. Fairuank. — I think you have got to have the rock forma- 

 tion. 



Mr. Clark. — I think there is one point that they all overlook — 

 something I have been working on two or three years, and per- 

 haps other fish-culturists, and that is we are planting our brook 

 trout, salmon trout, young salmon and all of that class of fish 

 in new waters too young. They should be grown or partially 

 grown before we plant them. Another point which goes to 

 prove that you get results quicker is, that wherever you have a 

 hatching house on a stream that trout will live in it at all, you 

 will get that stream stocked ten times quicker than any that you 

 plant with fry, because your partially grown fish are always 



