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thousand dollars, aud this year the supply of shad on the 

 Delaware has been unprecedented. We have had a 

 larger number of fish running in the Delaware, and of 

 course the fisheries have represented a larger income 

 than last year. We have been propagating these 

 fishes in the hatcheries. There has been one recently 

 established at Bristol, on the Delaware, and the com- 

 missioners are busy at Gloucester collecting the eggs 

 in all the large fisheries. They propagate these, and 

 they are put in the upper streams, so that in that way 

 we are aiming to increase the amount of fish in our 

 larger streams and getting a larger return for our 

 state. What Pennsylvania reaps in that way, of 

 course New Jersey and New York is likely to get some 

 of the benefit of 



The Secretary : Mr. Huntington has a paper, 

 somewhat in line with the paper just read. 



The President : I have a paper here on "Waste of 

 Food Fish." While we have heard the grievances of 

 the lake region, etc., I wish to state the grievances 

 of we sea-board people. 



Mr. Dickerson : I would offer this resolution : 



Resolved^ That a committee consisting of the Pres- 

 ident-elect and the Secretary be appointed a committee 

 to prepare a uniform bill for the protection of fish in 

 all the states bordering on the Great Lakes; that the 

 bill be submitted to the various commissions for 

 approval, and that the bill be submitted to the next 

 Legislature in each state. 



Mr. Amsden : I think we ought also to include the 

 rivers that cover the shad fishing, and also this matter 

 of menhaden. It is time that this Societ}^ showed it- 

 self to be something and acted on something, and I 

 think we have a President who can take hold, with the 

 assistance of such a committee as he may appoint at 



