up her spawn. So does the white fish of the Northern Minne- 

 sota lakes. But the bass refuses to have anything to do with 

 man. It is little aid which the human kind can give the fish. 

 The same is true of the crappie. 



The result is that pike spawn can be taken, fertilized, 

 hatched into fry and placed in various lakes and streams of 

 the state at the price of about 3 cents per thousand fry. The 

 fry, be it known, are little fish hatched from the spawn, which 

 are eggs. 



But with the bass and crappie it is much more expensive. 

 The bass fry cost about 4 cents each not a thousand, but 

 each. Crappies cost almost as much. 



But it was not to go on to liberty. They found themselves, 

 as soon as they had passed through this hole, in a balloon- 

 shaped net which allowed them tb swim around but which 

 denied them further progress. And en seeking to go back 

 they found the backward way barred. 



Here they were, captives, but with plenty of water to swim 

 around in, lots of air to breathe, as the water changed con- 

 tinually with the flow of the river. It used to be that the fish 

 were caught by the gills in gill nets and often died before 

 the commission, finished with them. Even seining was rough 

 on them, as many were out cf water too long and others were 

 taken from the water before ripe. But here, according to 

 Mr. Bradley, was an ideal trap. From the great balloon- 

 shaped pound the workmen took the fish as they desire! 

 (hem. 



Now, a word, as to why the fish went up the river; what 

 would have happened if man had net interfered and what is 

 to happen now that man has interfered? 



The fish left Lake Vermillicn to spawn. It is their nature 

 to go up the river to a point just belcw a dam or other water- 

 fall, some place where the current is swift. This spot reached, 

 the females would have ranged themselves along the shore 

 lines where the water is shaHcw. The majestic males would 

 have held their places -in midstream, their eyes on the fe- 

 males. 



When the female was ready to drop her spawn, tens of 

 thousands of eggs to each female, she would have dashed 9ut 



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