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two inches may vary greatly in size and weigiit, and I believe 

 that a more definite determination could be arrived at by using 

 the weight in connection with the method already adopted. 



Mr. Henry T. Eoot, Providence, K. I. : I would say that that 

 is the way we buy our trout. Ijy weight. I will go down and or- 

 der a hundred trout Ijut I order them by weight. We get less 

 trout as the fish advances in weight, but people are better satis- 

 fied, and I do not see whv that principle cannot be applied to all 

 fish. 



Mr. Median : You would have a great jol) with whitefish. 



Mr. Carter : The system of weights is used all over the 

 country. A pound is a pound everywhere. If Dr. Bartlett 

 weighs a lot of fish and knows a certain size has a certain weight, 

 he can telegraph to Washington, and they will know just what 

 those fish are. 



Dr. Bartlett : The |)urpose of this inquiry, as I understand 

 it, has been for the convenience of the gentlemen at the head of 

 the Bureau of Fisheries, and covers the work of twenty-five or 

 thirty of us in the country who are superintendents, and it is to 

 arrive at some kind of a fixed plan by which they may know 

 what we are giving them, that this meeting is called. I suppose 

 the service is the same with all, and the proposition, as I under- 

 stand it, is that when we have shipped a carload of fish we ought 

 to give an approximately c-rrect idea of what Ave ha^e actuallv 

 shipped. With Idack bass it is hard to do that, where you have 

 a number one running from one to two inches. I do not Icnow 

 anything about trout work, or in the growth of trout how it 

 would be applied. I am talking simply from the standpoint of 

 those black bass that are taken from sloughs where the waters 

 are very warm and they grow very rapidly, so that by the time 

 we have cleaned out a pond we may have a dozen different sizes, 

 and we may take fish out of some of those places where we would 

 have many fry that would go from one inch up to two inches, and 

 lots of them that would go u]) to four or five inches. I know it is 

 a little bit difficult, and perhaps I am a little bit selfish in insist- 

 ing on the committee changing the regulations as to size, but 

 those are my reasons. I am only speaking for one locality and 

 not as applied to the whole. 



