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Mr. Hoxle, of Carolina, R. I., said : 



" This discussion has been to the advantage of the 

 Fish Commissioners of the different States, but I am 

 one of the unfortunate kind who is out of the State of 

 New York and raise fish for the market. There is one 

 Httle point I wish to bring before the Society, when 

 they make an open season in New York. They have 

 just passed a law which cuts us off from shipping trout 

 there up to the i6th of April. Is there not some way 

 to hx this tiling.'^ Is there not some way in which the 

 man who makes a business of raising trout, for what 

 little money there is in it, can be allowed to ship them 

 into New York to the market whenever they are fit for 

 it ? The law seems a little unjust. If I were in Rhode 

 Island and raised chickens and turkeys, I could send 

 them at any time, but cannot send trout to New York, 

 it being the market for what I produce. One year 

 New York passed a law that we should not get fish 

 until the first day of May. I am not doing a large 

 business, but that year we did not pay our expenses by 

 about $1,500. We have shipped already this season to 

 New York over six tons of brook trout. The price has 

 been low, but we cannot orovern that if we don't eet 

 fish until the i6th day of April; but I would rather 

 have February, March and April, I can sell then all 

 I can raise, but later in the season people have gone 

 out of town for the summer." 



" I simply offer these suggestions to see whether 

 something cannot be talked up, some just law made, so 

 that we can have the privilege of selling our trout when 

 they are fit for the market." 



By the Chairman : 



" One word on this matter. I take it that a close 

 season for fish is for their protection during the season 

 of reproduction, and that is the only interpretation to 

 be given to it. It may work hardship for those engaged 

 in raising and selling fish, if the law precludes them from 



