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Ministers of the Department to revise the fisheries act, and as 

 International Fisheries Commissioner, appointed under the 

 Fishery Treaty of April 11, 1908, I framed conjointly with 

 my United States colleague, Dr. David Starr Jordan, a sys- 

 tem of international regulations, sixty-two in number, which 

 received the sanction of the Parliament of Canada, pending 

 similar action by the United States Congress as called for by 

 the Treaty. The regulations were never conjointly promul- 

 gated, and a new international commission has been author- 

 ized, which it may be hoped will succeed in securing concurrent 

 action in the fisheries administration of contiguous waters 

 along the international boundary between the United States 

 and Canada. 



The Work of Outside Inspectors and Others. — In- 

 spectors Chapman, Hockin, Gilchrist, McNab, etc. — 

 If the inside fisheries staff are responsible largely for the con- 

 servation and development of the fishing industries by a wise 

 central administration system, it remained with the outside 

 service, the inspectors, fishery overseers, and others, as their 

 essential duty, to enforce the laws and encourage expansion 

 and conservation. Mention should be made of men like In- 

 spector R. A. Chapman, of Moncton, N- B., for over twenty 

 years a zealous and conscientious officer in New Bruns- 

 wick; also Inspector Robert Hockin, of Pictou, N. S., an 

 officer of rare knowledge and courage, with a combined sci- 

 entific instinct and legal acumen which made him a valuable aid 

 to the service for nearly thirty years. He invented the Hockin 

 Fish-Pass which twenty-five years ago was approved by the 

 Government, and many have been constructed on various 

 rivers. Inspector F. C. Gilchrist, Qu'Appelle, had the gi- 

 gantic task of supervising the vast western area between Man- 

 itoba and the Rocky Mountains, and did it marvelously well. 

 In my possession I have a mass of letters and communications 

 of much scientific merit, for he not only enforced the observ- 

 ance by Indians and white men alike, but during his tours made 

 scientific observations and tests in remote lakes and rivers of 



