Transactions of the 

 American Fisheries Society 



Forty-second Annual Meeting, held at Denver, Colo., 

 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, September 3, 4 and 

 5, 1912. 



Tuesday, September 3, 19 12 



Meeting called to order at 11.00 a.m. by the President, 

 Mr. S. F. Fullerton, of St. Paul, Minn. 



president's address 



Gentlemen of the American Fisheries Society: I want 

 to take this opportunity to personally thank you for the 

 great honor you conferred on me at St. Louis last year. 

 The honor is all the more appreciated, for the reason of my 

 unaccountable absence at that time. 



This Society, of which we are all so proud, is only in the 

 infancy of its usefulness. The public is only beginning to 

 realize the great benefit the artificial propagation of fish is 

 to the state and also to the individual in the supply of 

 cheaper food for his table, and in furnishing to the sports- 

 man and lover of nature the recreation and pleasure derived 

 from an outing on any of our lakes and streams. 



If there were no fish in the waters, a large part of the 

 pleasure of the outing would be gone. The different 

 states are doing great work in making appropriations to 

 carry on this splendid work. The United States Bureau of 

 Fisheries, under the able management of the Hon. George 



