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something be done to provide for the restocking of the 
whitefish grounds ?”’ 
Is it not sufficient to convince any thinking mind, that 
six years ago, four steam vessels hailed from this port 
[Duluth], and scoured the fishing grounds of Lake Superior 
for lake trout and whitefish; while at the present date there 
is but one steam tug engaged in the fishing business, and 
before the middle of June, this is coming in with but half 
catches, and announces that the fishing is about gone up 
for this season. 
It is useless to send out men to gather spawn, who can- 
not resist the impulse to sit down vigorously when a 
boat is rolling. It is more than useless to send out men 
to gather spawn, who will made a fire on the beach, and 
sit and warm themselves, while the fishermen are either 
coaxed or bluffed into getting spawn for them. If fisher- 
men can be taught to gather spawn, then by all means let 
the experiment be tried. It is better to let fishermen at- 
tempt to gather spawn, and realize 40 per cent. for the 
quantity gathered, than to have men sent out for this 
specific purpose, go to sleep in the pilot house of the tugs ; 
while the fishermen dump such eggs that are taken into a 
bucket, nilly willy, leaving the eggs to the chances of 
impregnation. 
Fishermen have made successful spawn takers, have 
raised 80 per cent. of the spawn so taken, and brought out 
strong, healthy fry; what one fisherman has done, others 
can be taught to do. 
Then by a careful selection of sober, industrious men, 
‘ apt to learn, quick-witted, of habits of thought capable of 
improving their surroundings, with fingers that follow the 
impulses of their minds, and who by their earlier experi- 
ences can stay ina rolling boat and secure eggs, without 
paying tribute to the genii of the unsalted seas by casting 
up their last meal. 
The situation demands some thought of fishculturists. 
