Two questions about the designation in 1965 by the Legislature of the walleye as the state fish:
One, why did it take so long?
And two — and more relevant to today's discussion — why was the walleye chosen instead of the crappie? Or, for that matter, the "sunfish,'' a catch-all term that in Minnesota includes green sunfish, orange-spotted sunfish, bluegills, pumpkinseed, northern sunfish, warmouth and the hybrids thereof?
