Show LAKE WHITE FISH the foi following lowing letter was received monday by flab fish cum musser hig I 1 eki 16 to put a cupply ot white alt to in utah tat washington D 0 feb 13 1896 mra M masser huaser salt aalt lake cit city y I 1 utah dr sir replying to your letter of the ath anat I 1 desire to say that fry can be hallad any reasonable distance with I 1 believe that beter be ter re olto will always be secured if they can cah be planted without any transportation please bear in mind the necessity for the wr sar ta to lie at ai a point where it can receive X an abundant supply of cool freshwater fresh water for hatching the eggs egge this car will probably start atari from sandusky Sand ohio instead of alpena and it practicable I 1 shall be glad for you yon to 10 arrange for free transportation from sandusky to chicago over the lake shore if you cannot do this we can furnish it from detroit to chicago the lake white aih spawn in november aud and december and yield approximately irom from to 75 egg geach eg each the length of time the eege eegs take to batch depends entirely upon the temperature of the water at our or wreal lake stations i they hey are collected in november and december and lia liach hach ch in march and april the exact period being effected by the severity or mildness of the water you are correct cornec in understanding der standing as regards their spawning habito also as to their food the flesh of the hi e fish is considered the finest of the f resh fresh flis ashes elishes hes they do not take the hook and it will be neo necessary emary to 10 take them with wilh seines or deep water gill neb such as are used in the greal lakes 1 I have sent you under separate cover a pamphlet on the fisheries of the great lakes which describes in detail the various forms of apparatus used in their heir captures mr He herochel rachel whitaker in an article delivered before the american Fishe fisheries society in 1895 states that the white fish does not spawn until it attains a weight of two pounds yearn ago the average white fish weighted weighed three pounds or wore more today 7 owing to the effects of over ft fishing hing on n the 1 akes the size has decreased so that the average white fish weighs less than two pounds yours truly W dim DE C U BA VENETi aselt abst in charge division of fish fiah culture transportation should be arranged at once as an the oar car will be reada to start within ten days W DL di C it |