98 Tzventy-ninth Anmial Meeting 



taking to raise more yearlings. It might be better, I suppose, 

 to hatch 10,000,000 and raise them. 



Mr. Stranahan's report for 1899 touches upon the question 

 of fry distribution and suitable localities. He has made some 

 very interesting observations. He claims that under certain con- 

 ditions of the water the natural food of the whitefish is not to be 

 found; that when the water was clear and cold he has made ex- 

 aminations and found the food in abundance, and he recommends 

 very strongly that the planting of whitefish be governed by the 

 condition of the water. Furthermore, whitefish are dis- 

 tributed over a very large area. They are siphoned from the 

 batchery into a large tank on a vessel, and as the vessel runs 

 along at the rate of eight or ten miles an hour the fry run out into 

 the water through a rubber pipe, so they are well distributed. 



Dr. James : It seems to- me that we are coming to the time 

 when we will encourage the catching of all the older fish ; that the 

 time will come when with the fish that have once spawned, it will 

 be a great deal better for the people to catch them. The laws 

 which limit the catching of trout under a certain number of inches 

 are right. Let all the older fish be caught and consumed by the 

 people, but save the younger fish for propagation ; give them a 

 chance to spawn, that is my idea, and keep on propagating as we 

 are now doing. The great trouble is to get uniform laws, but 

 if you furnish fish five inches long and put them in the Pennsyl- 

 vania waters they will all be snapped up. These fish get no 

 chance ; you get no good from them. You simply, by putting the 

 fish there, feed the men who take them out, so we want 

 to have a limit and permit them to do one spawning. 



