58 American Fisheries Society 



Friday Morning Session, October 10th. 1919. 



READING OF PAPERS. 



Beneficial Results of the Introduction of Plant Life in Trout Ponds 

 at the New Jersey State Fish Hatchery. 



Charles O. Hayford, 

 Superintendent of the Hatchery, Hackettstown, N. J. 



This paper was read by Prof. J. G. Needham, of Cornell 

 University. See this number of the Transactions. 



Louisiana, Greatest in the Production of Shrimp {Penaeus seiiferits). 



By E. A. Tulian, 



Superintendent of Fisheries, Department 



of Conservation of Louisiana. 



To appear, with the discussion, in a later number of the 

 Transactions. 



business. 



President Alexander: Gentlemen, before proceeding further, 

 there is a question that the Nominating Committee would like 

 to be advised upon before submitting their final report. That 

 is the question of the position of the Recording Secretary, Cor- 

 responding Secretary and Editor. 



(Dr. Prince was asked to preside temporarily.) 

 President Alexander, continuing: I recommend to the 

 Society that we have a permanent officer of some sort, who should 

 be compensated for his services. He could devote the amount 

 of time necessary to compiling the records of this Society and to 

 keeping them in proper form, and to giving us a degree of publicity 

 which would be a benefit to the Society. This obligation should 

 fall either upon the Secretary or upon the Editor, who has rep- 

 resented this Society for a long period of years and who has 

 devoted a large amount of his time to that work unselfishly and 

 patriotically, we might say, in the interests of the Society. But 

 the burden has become rather heavy upon him and it would be 

 necessary to give more consideration should he take the position 

 of Corresponding Secretary as well as that of Editor. It is a 

 matter that I think should be discussed by the Society as a whole, 



