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count his fry by hundreds of millions. He expects to hatch whitefish, salmon 

 trout, and wall-eyed pike, and may incidentally try to establish a run of salt 

 water salmon such as formerly existed. 



Mr. Whitaker : And which is now being successfully accomplished on the 

 Penobscot River. 



The Chairman : Is the appropriation now sufficient to complete the building ? 

 Mr. Smith : No, it is only sufficient to get the site. But the money for the 

 building will probably be got within a month or so. 



Mr. Whitaker: May I add one word to what I have said. The fisheries upon the 

 Detroit twenty years ago were wonderfully profitable. A man who was engaged in 

 fishing at Belle Isle in 1870 says he caught $75,000 worth of whitefish. But the 

 sewage from the City of Detroit has killed off the fish to a great extent. At 

 Fort Wayne there is a fishery known as Craig's Fishery where they get about 

 2,000 whitefish annually, and that is not twenty-five rods from where there is the 

 mouth of a double sewer coming out. Either the instinct of the fish is so strong 

 that they will come there until they are extinguished, or they are not affected by 

 the sewerage, owing to the way in which the sewerage gets disseminated. There 

 is a marked difference between this fishery and those on the Canadian side, 

 which exceed our catch by 2,000 or 3,000 fish. 



Mr. Amsdex : What is your experience with fish returned to the water ? 



Mr. Whitaker : We have none, because we have not done so. We put them 

 into a grating with the water constantly flowing through. 



Mr. Amsden : After they are stripped do you think they live ? 



Mr. Whitaker : Yes, we keep them there in the grates ready for the market 

 for five or six weeks. We have two or three semi-interior lakes in our state 

 where fish run in for spawning purposes. We have been planting one or two of 

 these lakes very heavily to draw our ova from there. We think that is an in- 

 exhaustible source of supply. 



Mr. Skinner : Regarding the establishment of the hatchery, I might add, 

 that last Monday morning, I had the pleasure of accompanying the United 

 States Fish Commission's engineer to some springs in the vicinity of 

 Clayton, and last Saturday morning he was on hand again with his in- 

 struments and proceeded to these springs early in the morning. Mr. Grant 

 promised me to forward a report of the examination of the- springs, for 

 the reason that it was said that Commissioner McDonald was to be present 

 here to-day, and he desired me to explain to him what they had succeeded in 

 finding. I may say that Colonel Gore expressed himself very well pleased with 

 the supply of water and the lay of the land in that vicinity. It is distant about 

 two miles from the river's shore. I may add also, in connection with the matter, 

 that adjacent to the river's shore, is the same locality where the State Commission 

 for the past two years have authorized the use of nets for the taking of whitefish 

 spawn. 



Mr. Amsden : In regard to what Dr. Smith has said in regard to the progress 

 being made by the United States in establishing a hatchery, I am anxious to see 

 it brought about as soon as possible and without any delay. And I think we 

 should bring our influence to bear on the authorities at Washington to get all 

 the funds necessary, and for that purpose I offer this resolution, which is seconded 

 by Mr. Whitaker: 



" Resolved, That the representatives from the states represented at this 

 meeting respectfully recommend and urge upon the representatives in congress 



