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results we are entitled to from the amount of fry propagated 
and distributed. 
Take for example one United States Station located at 
Duluth, Minnesota. The amount of whitefish and lake trout fry 
distributed during the last ten years from that station alone 
Was 228,808,626 (that does not include the blue-fin whitefish, 
pike-perch and brook trout) and I am positive that nearly all of 
those young fish were deposited in the Great Lakes; in fact, the 
great bulk of them went into Lake Superior. — 
Now, with intelligent planting and proper protection, aided 
by the natural increase, we ought to have good fishing in Lake 
Superior. I know the other lakes in the Great Chain have been 
treated as liberally and they, also, ought to show results. Not 
only have the Great Lakes suffered by the criminal policy pur- 
sued by the States, whose duty it is to protect, but that splendid 
fish, the shad, is disappearing from the same cause. 
Twenty years ago in the city of Duluth, Minnesota, you could 
get all the whitefish you could carry home with you for five to 
seven cents per pound. ‘Today you are a lucky purchaser if you 
get any, but if you do, you will pay from fourteen to seventeen 
cents per pound and then you will have to be careful that you do 
not get Winnipeg whitefish instead of the Lake Superior. While 
the lake trout are not so scarce nor the price so high, they are not 
by any means so plentiful as they were twenty years ago—all 
because we have been criminally careless. I just read a dispatch 
from Ontonagon, Michigan, which I have inserted in this paper 
and which bears out what I have been saying in regard to the 
scarcity of the fish in the Great Lakes: 
“A large Lake Superior fish company, operating at Ontona- 
gon, has suspended operations for a month in the hope that white- 
fish and trout then will be found running better. The lifts have 
been hght this season, during the last few weeks especially, and 
the business has not been profitable. Similar complaint comes 
from other ports on the south shore of Lake Superior. Poor 
catches are reported from Marquette and Grand Marais, while 
instances are noted where commercial fishermen have transferred 
the scene of their operations to Minnesota waters on the north 
shore. At Manistique, the Coffey fleet of three tugs has been 
laid up for the season. The fishing was poor last year and im- 
