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American Fisheries Society ought to induce the states 

 to get together and make their laws governing the 

 states and the borders of these states in which food 

 fish are. Subsecjuently, in years to come, there must 

 naturally be an international law which will protect 

 larger areas. The whale and other large fishes in 

 Northern countries are nearl}^ all gone and will con- 

 tinue to fall away, and so will the salmon fisheries, we 

 all know, sooner or later be abandoned, because of their 

 unproductiveness, on account of the way they are 

 being taken into the market; and we ought to look 

 forward to some ultimate action in that way. 



Mr. Thompson : I wash to offer this resolution : 



Resolved^ That the President appoint a committee 

 of one member from each of the seaboard states, to 

 whom the subject of Mr. Huntington's paper shall be 

 referred, with power. 



Dr. Bean : I would like to make a remark on the 

 resolution which is before the Society, if I may be 

 allowed to do so. The resolution of Mr. Dickerson 

 provides that a committee be appointed to draft a form 

 of bill to be approved by the various commissions for 

 the protection of fish in the various states bordering 

 on the Great Lakes, and that such bill be submitted to 

 the next Legislature in each state. 



Mr. Chairman, the remark I want to make is this : 

 We have been members of the Fisheries Society for a 

 great many years, and we have observed the course of 

 business here, I think, very thoroughly. Now, it 

 appears to me that the work of the Societ}^ for a good 

 man}' 3'ears, after we got away from New York, Chi- 

 cago, Detroit, or Washington, or wherever the meeting 

 may be held, falls upon the President and Secretary. 

 Mr. Whitaker knows it; Mr. Huntington knows it; 

 Mr. Anisden knows it ; we all know it. Is it going to 



