112 Tivcnty-sixth Annual Meeting 



I think the very action taken Ijy tliis Society to-day in its 

 meeting calhng for a connnittee to 1)e appointed from each of the 

 States for the consideration of this ([uestion is going to solve the 

 whole matter, and this Association will still take the lead and 

 recommend to the Legislature of each State something that will 

 prove a solution of the whole matter. 



Mr. Whitaker: I want to say one word in that connection. 

 Perhaps Mr. Tomlin did not know it, but along last December, 

 in -the very water he speaks of, we received a report from Messrs. 

 A. Booth & Co., from their fisherv at Isle Roval, showing that 

 two-thirds of their catch, and 1 am stating it safely — I think it 

 was more than two-thirds — in weight of whitefish taken were 

 No. 2's and under — fish that had never spawned in the world. 

 It was their own man who made the report and sent it in here. 



Mr. Nevin: They do not give you the full report of the 

 amount of fish they catch, anyway. A year ago I saw a stat(?- 

 ment, which thev showed to me, saying that this is for you to 

 use and nobody else, and it differed materially from their pub- 

 lished reports. 



President: While we are on this general subject of the pro- 

 tection of tlie fisheries, we will have read a paper from Dr. Bush- 

 rod W. James, on State Laws for the LIniform Protection and 

 Propagation of Food Fish. 



