CLXXXIV REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



2. The company sliall engage to advise this department of the number and the 

 class of the vessels which it proposes to send to the arenas or Alacran grounds for 

 fishing purposes, also the names thereof, in order to give due advice to the depart- 

 ments of the treasury and of war and marine. 



3. The company shall likewise engage to comply with the regulations given in the 

 premises by the aforesaid departments of the treasury and of war and marine; fur- 

 thermore, the company shall engage to comply with the instructions established 

 under the regulations on marine lishing which may hereafter be issued, pledging 

 not to resort to any measure not accepted among civilized nations. 



4. This permit will take effect from and after the 1st of next September, and be 

 good till April 30 of next year (1892), the company having the option to renew the 

 same. 



I advise you of the foregoing for the information of yourself and of the company 

 you represent; praying acknowledgment of receipt of this permit, to"Ehe effect that 

 the said company agrees to the conditions established thereunder. 



MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. 



INTERNATIONAL FISHERY CONFERENCES. 



The agitation of. the condition of the fisheries of the international 

 lakes, especially Lake Ontario, to which reference is elsewhere made, 

 resulted in the call of a meeting in New York City for the purpose of 

 discussing the question of fish protection and fish propagation in Lake 

 Ontario. The meeting was held October 22, 1891, and was attended by 

 special commissioners appointed by the provinces of Ontario and 

 Quebec and by the State of New York, together with others interested 

 in the fisheries of the Great Lakes. The attendance of the U. S. Com- 

 missioner of Fish and Fisheries was urged, but, owing to his inability 

 to participate in the meeting, the writer was delegated for that purpose. 

 The meeting, which was informal and simply preliminary, was called to 

 order at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and Hon. Eobert B. Eoosevelt, of New 

 York City, was made chairman and Mr. A. D. Stewart, of Hamilton, 

 Ontario, was designated as secretary. 



On motion of Gen. Richard TJ. Sherman, of New Hartford, N. Y., 

 the question of the consideration of the object of the meeting, viz, 

 the protection, preservation, and propagation of food-fish in the Great 

 Lakes, w^as referred to a committee which was to meet at Eochester, 

 N. Y., November 10, 1891, and formulate a report to be presented to 

 a full conference of Canadian and State representatives, to be called 

 by the chairman. The committee, as announced, consisted of Dr. G. 

 A. MacCallum, chairman of the Ontario Fish and Game Commission; 

 Hon. J. W. Gregory, niember of the Quebec Fish Commission ; Hon. H. 

 C Ford, president of the Pennsylvania Fish Commission; Hon. Henry 

 Burden, member of the New York Fish Commission; Hon. E. U. Sher- 

 man, member of the special commission to revise and codify the fish and 

 game laws of New York; Mr. Frank J. Amsden, secretary of the 

 Cheaper Food-Fish Association of New York; Dr. J. A. Henshall, 

 president of the Ohio Fish Commission; Dr. J. C. Parker, president of 

 the Michigan Fish Commission ; and the writer, representing the TJ. S. 



