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Mr. A. H. Dinisniorc, Birdsview, Wasli. : 1 would like to ask 

 wh}^ fish could not be purchased from commercial fishermen, as 

 Mr. Atkins does, and retained there as he retains his fish, and 

 then why the ])roduct from those fish might not l)e used? 



Mr. Meehan : We might possilily do that. 



President: Is there any evidence whatever here that the 

 mature Atlantic salmon wliich has been induced to run in the 

 Delaware, has ever spawned ? 



Mr. Meehan : The only evidem-e 1 \\i\\v liad in that respect 

 is that last year a dead s|)ent fish was found Hoating in the river 

 at the mouth of the Bush-Kill at the borck-r line of Pike and 

 ]\Ionroe counties — a large fish weighing twenty to twenty-four 

 pounds. 



Mr. Titcond): Male or female? 



Mr. Meehan: Female, of course. (Great laughter.) 



Mr. Titcondj : Xot necessarily. 



Mr. Meehan : In Pennsylvania when we speak of a spent 

 fish we always mean a female. ( Laughter. ) I imagined that it 

 was so generally. 



Mr. Titcomb: When you are older you will feel differently. 



Mr. Meehan : Possibly, l)ut there were seen also in the Bush- 

 Kill large fish attempting to clamber the falls at Eeseca — evi- 

 dently trying to get up into the pools above. That was three 

 years ago. 



QUESTION BOX. 



Mr. Fearing : Has anyone had any personal experience in 

 stocking waters with striped bass? 



President : Mr. Fearing's inquiry has, I presume, particu- 

 lar reference to the depletion of the streams of southern Xew 

 England and the middle Atlantic states, and he and others have 

 been advocating extensive ])lanting of stri])e(l bass fry with a 

 view of restoring those waters. 



Mr. S. G. Worth, Beaufort, X. G. : ^Ir. Chairman, a good 

 manv of us are familiar with the stocking of the waters of the 



