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lies ill tlie fact tliat game and fisli taken in one State may be sold in the 

 markets of another State with impunity. 



What is needed, tlierefore, is such a co-operation of States as will pro- 

 cure the enactment of a law which shall make it illegal to expose for sale 

 in the markets of one State fish illegall}' taken in another State within 

 the periods for which their taking is prohibited in such States. Some 

 such measure is b}' universal consent acknowledged to be necessary', and 

 we are pleased to observe that a draft of a bill with this object in view 

 has been presented to the Legislature of Massachusetts b}' the Massa- 

 chusetts Angling Association, of which Dr. J. P. Ordway is the very 

 earnest and efficient President, and that the works and efforts of this 

 society have been endorsed by the Fish Commissioners of Maine ; and 



Whereas, The Committee of the said Anglers' Association has, in a 

 series of resolutions, invited the co-operation of their sister States, and 

 urged the formation of similar associations for this purpose ; therefore 

 be it 



Resolved^ That it is the special province of the American Fish Cul- 

 turists' Association, composed, as it is, of the State Fishery Commis- 

 sioners, and the leading Fish Culturists of the country, to promote and 

 encourage, either within or outside of its own body, the formation of a 

 similar society as that of Massachusetts, and for the like objects. Also, 

 in view of the difficulty that has hitherto attended the identification of 

 species by a confusion of local names whereby we are unable to distin- 

 guish by the vernacular a trout from a black bass, a pike from a pickerel, 

 and a bluefish from a taylor fish, it is of the utmost importance that an 

 uniform nomenclature be adopted to enable us to designate each species 

 as may be named within and coming under the provisions of any sumptu- 

 ary act, so that the same be known and recognized in all those States in- 

 cluded within the limits of said act, and that the better to decide upon 

 and establish such uniform nomenclature a Committee or Board of Refer- 

 ence be formed to be composed of delegates, one from each naturalists" 

 and sportmen's association in each State, whose qualifications shall be 

 defined and deterinined by a convention composed of one delegate from 

 each naturalists' and sportsmen's association in the States so co-operating, 

 and the decision of which Board of Reference or Committee shall be. 

 final. 



