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think it very likely all the salmon family would spawn in 
a lake if there was plenty of gravel and a large spring 
coming out of the lake. Whether they all go up those 
streams we do not know, but the chances are that nearly 
all do so. 
By a Memser: Referring to Mr. Porter’s statement, it is 
something new to say that in five years’ time only 5 per 
Gent. of seges are, left in a “good ‘state ;~but: im. thespaper 
there is a saving clause. .He says he started out with one 
hundred thousand eggs, and further says that with a small 
amount of eggs, such as twenty thousand, a greater propor- 
tion would be saved. I want to ask if he did not have too 
many eggs? 
Mr. GREEN: Well, almost all of us could handle $20,000 
better than we could $500,000; but we have men, of course, 
who handle great sums of money pretty successfully. 
Mr. REEDER, Fish Commissioner of Pennsylvania: 
The overstocking of water is an evil much to be dreaded. 
The loss in cases of fish put into the water, where water has 
insufficient food, arises from consumption of the fish by the 
other fish. That applies more particularly to trout, which are 
a good deal like men: they feed upon other trout. That is 
the distinction between sheep and trout. Trout will eat each 
other, and sheep will not; and the excess is consumed as 
food, and consequently it is to be apprehended that in a large 
number of fish the loss will be larger. When they get sick, 
the big ones eat the little ones, and they then become dis- 
eased, and when the disease seizes upon them it goes through 
the whole family, and only a few recover. We have no way 
of doctoring them. They get thin, and nearly all die. A 
very much larger percentage would die if put in the water 
in large quantities. There would be danger in introducing a 
