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Prosifloiit : T tliink that is true. But wlien you are trans- 

 poiiiiiii- Ihiii^s. you luive got to consider motion etc., the amount 

 of walci- iiioiion tliat sliallow water would yvt. It is certainly 

 true that ymi have to keep the water aerated in iliese cans to 

 ko('|) tlie lisli alive for any time. 



Dr. Bean: T happened to see the larae eolleetion of gold 

 fish wliicli were l)roiight l)y a Japanese from Ja])an to Xew 

 York early in this month, after a sea journey, as I remarked, of 

 nearly three weeks, and a land journey of al)ont another week, 

 in a very shallow and rather wide Japanese tulx I was sur- 

 prised when I went down into the laboratory in Xew York and 

 saw these things and realized what he had accomplislied. He 

 had brought eiglity percent of his fish from Ja|)an to Xew York, 

 apparently in good health, and they continued in good liealth, 

 that is to say, he lost almost none of them after he arrived in 

 Xew York, although the weather was very warm. Xow, he cer- 

 tainly did not have more than three or four inches of water in 

 his tubs. The backs of the fish were out of the water, and as far 

 as 1 could learn, he did not aerate tlie water : he liad no means 

 of aerating the water on the journey, and told me tliat he had 

 great difficulty in getting a change of water on the way. It 

 would seem, then, as if there was something in favor of the wide 

 open shallow tub for fish transportation. I do not think it is 

 practical with ns, with our gTeat amount of transportation, al- 

 thougli he did the same thing, brought them in baggage cars 

 from Seattle to Xew York in these tul)s. 



President: Tliere is no (piestion but if we wish to keep fry 

 fish, we i)ut tliem in a sink and keep them moist. If you keep 

 a. little water on tlu'ni. so tiiat they are kept wel. but not under 

 Avater, they will \\\c almost indefinitely. 



:\lr. Carter: Dr. Smitli lias spoken of llie method of hand- 

 ling the cod: of having cod si)awn naturally and of di'awing the 

 eggs from the surface of the watt'r gradually. I persnme that the 

 fish spawn from day to i];\y. Willi the pike perch, the great 

 trouble seems to me to he thai you have to take all the eggs from 

 the fish at tlie time of stripiiing. and in reality a snudl pereent- 

 auv onlv are readv to he laken. In the waters inhabited hv them 



