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American Fisheries Society. 
Mr. Lydell: I did not measure them at all. It is stated 
that 1,500,000 eggs can be obtained from one sturgeon, and I 
claim only 185,000, and I do not think when I make such a 
modest estimate as that, that I should be called on for a count. 
I think fully 90 per cent hatched. It is so long ago that I do 
not think I could recall the method we used for measurement, 
but I know we measured the eggs and counted them. I think 
it was nine to the inch. The report of this work is contained 
where in the Michigan Fish Commission report. [I would not 
somewhere in the Michigan Fish Commission report. I would 
not say as to the 185,000—it may have been 365,000,000. 
(Laughter. ) 
President: The records as to Detroit River were not printed 
in the report of the United States Fish Commission, but there 
was an accurate record of the size of the eggs and number of 
eggs we got, kept, and it seems to me now it is something lke 
Mr. Lydell: I thought at that time that the hatching of the 
sturgeon was the simplest matter I ever ran up against—all I 
had to have was a butcher knife, two tubs and a couple of stur- 
geon. (Laughter. ) 
