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where suitable streams exist ; as they have added about 80 

 acres to the original purchase of ground, which gives them 

 the control of the wooded land about the sources of Cheney 

 Creek, thereby making more permanent the water supply, it 

 looks as if their object might be accomplished from the Paris 

 station alone. 



Fishing is prohibited by law in any stream into which trout 

 has been put by the Commission under three years from the 

 date when first planted, and under these regulations, about 

 two hundred streams have been opened for sport in the last 

 two years, and the number will be largely increased in 1890. 



Trout in lower Michigan were discovered about forty years 

 ago, and were then confined to an extent of country em- 

 braced by six or seven counties in its extreme northern por- 

 tion, none being found south of the Boardman River which 

 empties into Grand Traverse Bay after coursing through the 

 counties of Kalkaska and Grand Traverse, and as at the 

 present time this fish is found in about forty counties of the 

 lower Penninsula, one can readily see that the efforts of the 

 Fish Commission have not been devoid of gratifying results 

 in this line of work at least. 



On motion the meeting adjourned to 8 P. M. 



EVENING SESSION. 



There were no papers read in the evening, but several sub- 

 jects were discussed in an informal manner, 



Mr. Blackford had been looking over the Delaware river 

 salmon which Mr. Spangler had bought. Some had raised 

 a question about the possibility of this fish being one of the 

 Quinnat, or Chinook salmon which were planted in the river 

 years ago. There was no possible doubt about it ; it was an 

 Atlantic salmon, salnio salar, and from its small size and trim 

 shape was not an old fish. 



Dr. Hudson. — From our experience in the Connecticut 

 river it is well established that for years after planting has 



