VIEWS AND RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE CONGRESS. 
GENERAL VIEWS. 
1. The congress learns with pleasure that the long standing fishery dispute between 
Great Britain and the United States affecting waters on the northeast coast of North 
America is likely to be submitted to settlement by arbitration at an early date. 
2. We heartily commend the stand of the President of the United States in behalf 
of the conservation of natural resources, and congratulate him on the beneficial effects 
of his example and influence at home and abroad. 
3. The congress advocates the establishment, in all countries having important fish- 
eries, of national schools of fisheries and fish culture under government auspices. 
4. The congress strongly urges the necessity of simplifying fishery laws by the 
elimination of qualifying clauses which so often provide loopholes through which 
offenders escape penalties and waters continue without protection. 
5. In view of the injury to the fishing communities and the menace to the prosperity 
of important fishing industries on the Atlantic coast of the United States and Canada 
arising from the depredations of dogfish, especially of the spiny and smooth dogfishes, 
this congress favors uniform measures for the extermination or utilization of these 
injurious fishes in the contiguous waters referred to. 
VIEWS OF UNITED STATES DELEGATES. 
1. The condition at this time of the shad fishery in east coast streams forbodes ill 
for its future and demand energetic action on the part of the United States and Canadian 
provinces. We urge prompt action, especially with regard to interstate waters, that will 
so regulate fishing as definitely to insure the passage of a fair proportion of the run to the 
spawning grounds each season. A ro per cent reduction in the catch at this time may 
prevent the ultimate destruction of a fishery worth $1,500,000 yearly. 
2. We heartily indorse the movement instituted by President Roosevelt for the 
conservation of our natural resources, and we pledge our official and personal support 
to measures for insuring the protection of our fishes and other aquatic creatures. 
3. Believing that the welfare of all of our most valuable river fisheries demands the 
preservation of natural conditions at the headwaters of streams, we favor and urge the 
formation of the Appalachian Forest Reserve and other similar reserves which embrace 
the watersheds of important streams. 
4. The convention between Great Britain and the United States under which the 
regulation and administration of the fisheries of the boundary waters of the United 
States and Canada will be undertaken by the respective federal governments marks an 
epoch in the history of our fisheries. We pledge our support to all measures that, after 
proper investigation, are found to be necessary for the preservation of the fisheries of 
the waters in question. 
RESOLUTIONS. 
1. That the thanks of the congress are due and are hereby tendered to the President 
of the United States, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and the authorities and 
citizens of the city of Washington for their cordial and effective support. 
2. That the thanks of the congress are offered to the Italian Fisheries Society for 
its cordial invitation to hold the next session in Rome in 1911. 
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