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the only large catch of whitefish must be made at that 
time, or the fishermen get none during the season. 
The question arises and is often discussed with some 
vigor, is there no remedy for this state of affairs? Can- 
not Lake Superior be restocked with whitefish ? 
There are two points worthy of consideration. One isa 
national law demanding that the fishermen shall be com- 
pelled to strip and deposit the spawn of the whitefish, just 
as the State laws of the State of Wisconsin demands and 
enforces. 
Another point is, the employment of specialists that 
shall go out with the fishermen during the spawning season 
and teach them to carefully handle the fish and impreg- 
nate the eggs, and then interest the fishermen in the work 
so as to deposit the eggs in the best places to secure food 
for them when hatched. 
Fishermen are often charged with carelessness, destroy- 
ing young fish, by using meshes too small to let the 
smaller fry escape. I have not so found them, from some 
years’ experience with them. I have learned that measures 
looking to the introduction of larger mesh nets have been 
considered, and a bill was introduced into the State Legis- 
lature demanding the increase of the size of meshes full 
% of an inch string measure; in matters pertaining to the 
development of fishing interest these men are alive, and 
look to their own interests. 
This measure of securing an expert or a ‘‘specialist’’ to 
spend one or two seasons with the fishermen on the Great 
Lakes during the time the fish are spawning, and to get 
them interested in the best manner of propagating fish 
fry, came from men who have been obliged to go out of the 
fish business, because there is no money in the business; 
their capital stock lay too long idle and no means of re- 
muneration offered them—‘‘They must make hay while 
the sun shines’’—and the whitefish fishing became so 
poor they perforce sought other occupations. 
