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these fish deposit a few one day and a few the next. I liave seen 

 pike pereli spawn in the hottom of our crates. It occurred to me 

 if tlie crates could be arranged so that the fish could spawn 

 naturally — simply elevate the pen in w^hich the fish are held in 

 some way, introduce the water at one end, at the top, and draw 

 it off gradually from the hottom, let the fish spawn naturally, 

 and collect the eggs from the troughs, that we might get a larger 

 percentage of good eggs than now. 



President: You would run onto the practical ditfieulty of 

 separating the eggs from below, of course, Avhich they avoid in 

 the case of the trout egg. 



^Ir. C'arter: You mean in drawing it from the bottom of the 

 tank. The water would have to he introduced in vats througli 

 strainers, of course, clear water. There .might he something of 

 that sort. Tlie idea occurred to me; I want to think it over. 



