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for our benefit, because we have profited by what New York did on the start, and 

 I think you would have very little difficulty in interesting your State Board in 

 establishing a whitefish hatchery on Lake Ontario. 



Mr. Skinner : Mr. Chairman, in answer to the question, "At what point doc^ 

 the St. Lawrence river cease to be international water ? " I am credibly advised 

 that it is on the Canada side near the village of St. Regis where it crosses the 45th 

 parallel, and at Tibbett's Point light-house on the United States side, so that 

 there is about 115 miles of the St. Lawrence river international waters. 



On motion of Mr. Amsden, it was decided that the meeting should adjourn, 

 to meet at Hamilton, Ontario, on 8th December. Carried. 



Votes of thanks were then tendered to the Chairman and Secretary, after 

 which the meeting was adjourned. 



The following were adopted as recommendations to the meeting at Ham-, 

 ilton, Ont., December 8th : 



Moved by Mr. A. D. Stewart : 



Resolved, That provisions ought to be introduced into the laws of all the 

 States represented in this conference, forbidding the taking and having in posses- 

 sion of salmon trout and whitefish of the weight of less than two pounds each,, 

 and bass of the weight of less than one pound, and blue pike of less weight than 

 three-quarters of a pound. — Carried. 



Moved by Mr. Post : 



Resolved, That it be recommended to the Congress of the United States the 

 importance of authorizing and directing to be made, through the United States 

 Fish Commission, a full and careful biological survey of the great lakes, with a 

 view of determining the character and plentifulness of the food, and the habits 

 and migration of commercial fish. — Carried. 



Moved by Mr. Post : 



Resolved, That the members of this conference from the Dominion of Canada 

 and the States represented, respectively, be requested to take the text of the 

 Game and Fish code prepared by the New York State Commissioners, and consider 

 the same with reference to the applicability of its provisions to their own pur- 

 poses, and to indicate thereon what provisions may be acceptable to them, and 

 what changes they may deem advisable to be made to suit their separate wants, 

 io that at the final meeting of the conference an agreement may be come to, in 

 respect to all the provisions upon which legislation is desired. 



Resolved, That this body regards with disfavour any movement looking to- 

 wards the turning over to the United States government, the work of the State 

 Commissions in propagating and planting commercial fish in the great lakes ; 



That the jurisdiction over the lake fisheries belongs naturally to the adjoining 

 States, whose interest in their success is paramount to that of the Ignited States 

 as a whole, and. 



That there is an abundant field for the concurrent action of the bordering 

 states and of the general government, and anything which would detract from the 

 state's interest in this matter will be detrimental to the end aimed at of restocking 

 the waters of the Great Lakes. 



