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Mixing Trout in Western Waters. By Aldo Leopold, U. S. Forest 

 Service, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Read by title. 



Secretary Avery read letters from Dr. Chas. H. Townsend, 

 Director of the New York Aquarium, from Dr. Raymond C. 

 Osburn, the Editor of the Society and from Mr. N. R. Buller, 

 Commissioner of Fisheries for Pennsylvania. 



President Field: My last duty, before this annual meeting 

 is brought to a close, is the appointment of the committee pro- 

 vided for by your action, as the result largely of the suggestions 

 made in Mr. Titcomb's paper. This Society needs a creed and 

 its creed should be in such form that it can be applied to specific 

 cases both in Federal and State legislation. The committee to be 

 named is to formulate a statement of the fundamental principles 

 essential to legislative practice relative to the proper utilization of 

 the fisheries resources of the United States. I will ask Mr. John 

 W. Titcomb, of New York, to act as chairman, with Mr. Chas. O. 

 Hayford, of New Jersey, and Dr. Chas. H. Townsend, Director of 

 the New York Aquarium, and the incoming President, Mr. Henry 

 O'Malley, of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, as a member 

 ex officio. 



Editor's Note. — The committee above named has drafted the 

 following set of resolutions, which, although the Society has had 

 no opportunity for formally approving them, are of such import- 

 ance that they should be made public as soon as possible. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PRINCIPLES OF LEGISLATION RELATIVE 

 TO PROPER UTILIZATION OF FISHERIES RESOURCES. 



Whereas, Under the stress of present conditions the nation 

 has been brought to look carefully into the character and the 

 amount of its various food supplies; and,- 



Whereas, In the past it has, through lack of attention, failed 

 to appreciate in any real sense the significance of its food fishes 

 and the opportunities afforded by its numerous and varied water 

 bodies to produce a large and important element for the food sup- 

 ply of the nation and, 



Whereas, We, members of the American Fisheries Society, in 

 session at the Forty-seventh Annual Meeting held at St. Paul, 

 Minnesota, by virtue of our contact with the fishing industry and 



