62 Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting 
to relate where fry might better have been dumped in the gutter 
than taken to the lake or stream. 
A short time ago one of our wardens at the city of Minne- 
apolis, Minnesota, seized several barrels of fish, mostly lake trout. 
They were shipped from a neighboring state to my own. There 
were over three hundred of those trout that would not average 
one “pound and several that weighed less than one-half pound. 
Now, what is the use of going to the expense of propagating lake 
trout and whitefish when fishermen are allowed to catch and sell 
fish of this size? They don’t do it in Minnesota. Our law is 
2 pounds undressed, 1144 pounds dressed. After the seizure, [ 
wrote the proper authorities to take the matter up with the 
shippers, whose cards we took from the package, and offered to 
go and testify if necessary. So far, nothing has been done that 
T have heard of, but hope the parties responsible will be brought 
to trial and a lesson taught them so that in the future they will 
be good. The great trouble with us as a people, we allow our 
greed for gold to blind us, but, after the fish have disappeared, 
then we wake up and do things that should have been done years 
ago. 
In states where separate boards exist, one for the propaga- 
tion of the fish and another for the protection of the game 
and fish, the best of harmony does not always prevail between 
these two boards, but they ought to work hand in hand because to 
have complete success both must work together. Very often 
politicians interfere with the work and ruin the labors of the 
fish culturist. Fortunately, our fish culture work has not been 
interfered with much by politicians but the protection, which 
must go hand in hand with propagation, has, and to that extent 
we have suffered. 
REMEDY. 
A proper method of distributing the fry. They ought to be 
placed in the water as near as possible to where the parent fish 
would select for their spawning ground. A Federal Law and a 
treaty with the Dominion of Canada, making a uniform closed 
season on the Great Lakes so as to protect those fish in the 
spawning season. A license system for all market fishermen and 
a rigid inspection of their catch. No whitefish or lake trout 
