114 Tliirli/^si.rlli Ainiiiul Mrrliin, 



(4) Finilicriiiorc, tlic fish did not ;i|)|)c;ir to have ripened 

 any furtlicr, in tlio sliyhicst detii-cc. 



President : 44iis \cvx iiitcrcstinu- jiaper is now ojjen fois dis- 

 cussion. 



Mr. George Mathewsoii. of Ivulield. ( 'oniu'cticnt : I was 

 \-erv mueh interested in ]\lr. ]\Ieehan"s paper. Our experience 

 on the Connecticut has been ahnost identical for this yeai'. 

 What interested me most was that yon took the eggs and held 

 them for an hour or more before getting the male to fertilize. 



Mr. ]\leehan : 'J'hat was one case. 



^h\ ]\rat]iewson : You have not trii'd it any further than 

 that? 



Mr. Meehan : That was the only time. 



Mr. Mathewson : A\'e have Ijcen very short of male fish h iv 

 in Connecticut. Lots of times we could have taken hundreds of 

 thousands of eggs, and could not get the male fish to impregnate 

 them. We never have been successful in holding them. I would 

 like to know if there was a way to do it. 



Mr. ^leehan : This was done by the giller. We wnnld no: 

 try it if we could get out of it. It was too risky. 



Mr. Mathewson: We were not in just that position. Wherc^ 

 we were, we could not get the females. 



President : How many eggs did you get in the Connecticut ? 



Mr. Mathewson: Alioiit a million and a half of good eggs. 



President: ITow was it witli the numlier of (ish ther.'? 



Mr. Mathewson: ^\o liad a very short season. While tlu'y 

 were getting fish, the season was short; the temperature was 

 down to about 53° or 54° all the way through there; had hardly 

 any fish before the 7th or 8th of June. 



President: 1 sliould Ijc glad if you would speak on this sub- 

 ject of the pollution of the water, and fishing, and so on, as 

 affecting the run. I should like to know yonr experience in 



