American I-'islicrics Society, <)1 



haul free the cars of the United States Commission is. with pres- 

 ent facilities, at least a jiartial harrier to an elahorate and success- 

 ful i)r;)sccution of the whitefish and lake trout work without tre- 

 nientlous cost. 



The estahlishment of auxiliary stations, however, near suit- 

 able planting grounds on the CJreat Lakes would remove these 

 difficulties. 



The auxiliaries need not be run more than two months in 

 the year ; there would be practically no expense in transferring" 

 the eyed eggs from the primary stations to the auxiliaries. The 

 people are now demanding results. In order to have them 

 throughout the Great Lake region, the Lake Erie methods may 

 well be extended to the other Great Lakes. This work is of a 

 national character and should be prosecuted by the United 

 States Government. 



At present no other lake has such extensive facilities for the 

 hatching and planting of artificially (so called) produced fry as 

 does Lake Erie; note the correlative results. If the industry can 

 be built up in Lake Erie, so it can in the other lakes by the appli- 

 cation of like causes. 



In consequence of the enormous expense to be incmred in 

 future years by the movement of the cars to planting points, and 

 in view of the more practical side of the question enabling us to 

 plant by the outlay of less funds many more fry in better con- 

 dition, it appears to me that an ever increasing population and 

 an insatiable market will eventually necessitate the estal)lishment 

 of several auxiliary stations adjacent to suitable planting grounds 

 on the Great Lakes. 



By such practical provision the funds woidd l)e applied in 

 the most direct way to the work of replenishment. 



At Put-in- r.ay the whitefish fry are dipped from the fry tanks 

 into kegs as soon as hatched and immediatelv transported to nat- 

 ural spawning grounds on the reefs and there planted. The 

 plants in Detroit River from the Detroit hatchery have been 

 made practically in the same manner. 



At the Detroit hatchery this past season no fry were l;eld 



