56 Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting 
Mr. Clark: Then I understand that the true whitefish has 
a smooth border ? 
Prof. Reighard: Yes sir. 
Q. And the menominees have a corrugated border ? 
Prof. Reighard: Yes sir, as the photographs illustrate. 
President: Can you state the relative merits as table fish, 
of these different specimens ? 
Prof. Reighard: Of course, the whitefish is more esteemed 
by the people generally, but these jumbo herring in Lake Erie 
are being sold as whitefish. 
Mr. Meehan: Only to a limited extent. 
Prof. Reighard: The longjaw is a good fish. 
President: The purpose of the inquiry is to see whether all 
these different varieties should not be specified in a protective 
law. 
Prof. Reighard: If they were | suppose it would be neces- 
sary to specify different sizes as being legal for different species. 
The whitefish grows larger than any of the others. The mini- 
mun size of whitefish which may be taken should be specified ; the 
minimun size of herring, of course, should be less. 
Mr. Bean: I want to express my pleasure in hearing this 
paper of Dr. Reighard’s and to say that in my judgment this 
society and its associates could perform an excellent service 
for the protection of fishes of all states, by getting into the laws 
a clear definition of what the fish really are; for instance, take 
the pike-perch, that is protected in many states during the 
spawning season. Now there are other fish closely related to the 
pike-perch, especially the blue pike. Is it the intention of the 
law to protect that fish or not? In New York the question has 
come up practically. Seizures have been made of blue pike as 
being pike-perch. It seems to me that the services of this society 
and of scientific men generally could very well be lent toward the 
interpretation, first, and the unifying afterward, of the laws 
upon the statute books. What I mean is this: You want to 
