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skill and entire ingenuity to the end of attempting to overcome any of the 

 perplexities of the present or the future, which there is any possibility to 

 anticipate or formally respond to; and 



Be it further Resolved, that a copy of this resolution be promptly for- 

 warded to the Honorable Secretary of War and the United States Food 

 Administration. 



This resolution was also approved unanimously. 



III. Whereas, there comes regularly to the serious attention of the 

 American Fisheries Society the need of abatement of certain pollution of 

 certain streams and certain tidal waters, which pollution in many cases is 

 the result of oversight occasioned by the quick and abnormal growth of 

 essential industry, and which in many cases also can be easily remedied 

 without in any way impairing the usefulness of such indtistries; and. 



Whereas, the aforesaid pollution is at present destroying great volumes 

 of human food, with the imminent prospect of irreparable future damage; 



Be it therefore Resolved, that the proper authority of the Federal Gov- 

 ernment be requested to call and to meet a conference committee from this 

 Society purposely to consider certain measures to be proposed for control 

 and abatement; and, 



Be it further Resolved, that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the 

 Honorable Secretary of War, the United States Food Administrator, and 

 the War Industries Board. 



The reading of this resolution precipitated a somewhat lengthy 

 discussion as to the advisability of asking government co-operation 

 in such matters. Some of the members seemed to feel that the 

 rights of the various states to full control of their fisheries and 

 unnavigable waters might be involved. 



The question was finally put to vote and the resolution carried 

 with two dissenting votes. 



Later action by the Society provided a committee which has 

 been appointed by President Alexander. 



COMMITTEE ON POLLUTION OF STREAMS. 



Prof. Henry B. Ward, Chairman, University of Illinois; Mr. 

 John N. Cobb, Director, School of Fisheries, Seattle, Washington; 

 President E. A. Birge, Wisconsin University; Mr. Wm. C. Adams, 

 Fish and Game Commission of Massachusetts; Mr. J. A. Williams, 

 Shell Fish Commissioner of Florida; Mr. E. A. Tulian, Conserva- 

 tion Commission of Louisiana, and Mr. Seymour Bower, U. S. 

 Bureau of Fisheries, Comstock Park, Michigan. 



