l6 AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY. 



hatchery about 30,000,000 wall-eyed pike eggs, estimating them 

 at 120,000 to the quart measure, and though as fine a looking lot 

 of eggs as one could wish to see, I do not expect to have more 

 than 10,000,000 fry to distribute. These 10,000.000 will fill about 

 one hundred of the applications we have on file, leaving nearly 

 another hundred to be left over until next year. 



The best breeding grounds in Wisconsin for this fish are Green 

 Bay, and Fox River emptying into it. Last winter our Legis- 

 lature passed a law preventing the killing, buying, selling or 

 having in possession any wall-eved pike from these waters 

 weighing less than lyi. lbs. A similar law for protecting our 

 whitefish in Lakes Michigan and Superior, and their bays, was 

 passed, and I have no doubt that a very few years will prove tlie 

 wisdom of these laws, as the fish will be enabled to reach an age 

 and size that will make them useful as breeders, and valualile as 

 commercial fish. The main trc/uble hitherto has been that our 

 lake fish have been caught when weighing a pound, and even 

 less; consequently they had no opportunity of being reproducers 

 f)f their kind, and brought such a low price per pound that a 

 fishermen could hardly make more than living expenses. 



In conclusion, I will give a brief summary of the fry that have 

 been turned out and the number of applications filled in 1887 up 

 to the present time, by the Wisconsin Fish Commission : 



No. of applica- No. of fry 



tions filled. planted 



Brook trout 212 2,930,000 



Mountain trout 119 1,350,000 



Mackinaw, or lake trout 500,000 



Whitefish 31,500,000 



Wall-eyed pike ; 67 8,000,000 



Total 398 44,280,000 



Madison^ Wisconsin. 



By request, Mr. K. Ito, President of the Fisheries Society of 

 Northern Japan, spoke on the Fishing Industries of hiscountr}-, 

 and his remarks were taken down by Mr. J. C. O'Connor, Secre- 

 tary to Col. McDonald, of the United States Fish Commission. 

 They were as follows : 



