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est in the American Fisheries Societ}'. I have all the 

 papers in Toledo back of this Society, and I think we 

 are a little bit slow in waiting one year before pnshing 

 this thing. Let ns begin now and start the thing 

 where it belongs and will do the most good. I may be 

 wrong, but these are things I observe from the ontside, 

 and I know I can bring the entire press of Northwest- 

 ern Ohio in favor of anything that this Society may 

 recommend. I am a member of the Press Clnb in 

 Toledo, and I come with anthority from them that they 

 stand ready to aid yon all in their power. I met the 

 editor of the Commercial jnst before I left, and he said 

 to me, "Mr. Gnnckel, this paper stands ready at any 

 time to back np the American Fisheries Society in 

 their efforts for the protection offish." 



My attention was called some time ago to several 

 barrels of fish from Toledo, of pickerel, perch, and 

 white fish, that they had to take back and dnmp into 

 the bay for want of a market. They were too small to 

 sell. The papers all had acconnts shortly after that 

 the shores were covered with dead fish, and it was this 

 fish that had been dnmped in the bay, becanse it was 

 too small to sell in the market. Is the American 

 Fisheries Society going to permit anything like that ? 

 Are not the^^ smart enongh to get aronnd this business, 

 and get hold of the thing, check it ? I have been 

 stirred np very ninch over this snbject, at times, and 

 we should make a stand and prosecnte this work. Yon 

 have the good will of Major McKinley, the good will 

 and backing of Governor Bnshnell, and with such men 

 as Mr. Whitaker in Michigan, I don't see why we can- 

 not push things and make it go. 



Mr. H. Whitaker : I want to say a word right in 

 line with the paper read by Dr. James, and that is on 

 the question of government control. The greatest 

 mistake that Ohio ever made in this world was when 

 she relinquished her interest in the propagation of fish 



