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catching trout in Ontario is extended to the 1st of April. It 

 was formerly the 1st of January, but regulations were passed 

 that salmon-trout should not be taken in the Province of 

 Ontario until the 1st of April, and in the lower Provinces I 

 think it is January still. 



Mr. Green : Some twenty-five years ago a vessel started 

 from our place and went down on purpose to catch these fish. 

 They went around to the mouths of all these salmon-streams 

 and caught quite a cargo of them. They not only caught them 

 in the salt water, but in the St. Lawrence outside of the streams. 

 They had the best fishing where the streams came in, and they 

 went up the streams as far as they could go with their boats, and 

 caught the same fish ; and in my opinion they were the brook- j 

 trout. 



Prof. Spencer F. Baird : In response to a question of Mr. 

 Wilmot with regard to the agency of a United States Com- 

 missioner — myself — in regard to the introduction of salmon, I 

 must honestly disclaim the credit of that enterprise, and give it 

 to this very Association. You may remember my having been 

 in Congress at the time the United States Commissioner was 

 authorized, and that the original object was to prosecute an 

 inquiry as to the decrease of the fisheries, which had nothing to 

 do with the propagation or multiplication of fish ; and for myself 

 the working of the Commission was confined to endeavoring to 

 ascertain whether the fish on the coast of the United States had 

 decreased, and if they had, what was the cause ; and if the 

 cause could be found, what was the remedy. During that same 

 year, 187 1, the Fish Culturists' Association had its first or second 

 meeting, and resolutions were presented appointing a committee 

 to proceed to Washington during the coming session, and to 

 memorialize Congress on the subject of natural action in the 

 propagation and distribution of fish. That committee discharged 



