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commissioners at Washington and at Ottawa, to the many 

 eminent fish culturists of state and national departments, 

 to the Commission of Manitoba, and the Conservation Com- 

 mission of Canada, for their valuable reports, to your great 

 big member, Kelly Evans, of the Ontario Commission, to 

 the contrary winds that have only served to stimulate us to 

 labor in the interests of the poor who suffer because of lack 

 of food, and to the American Fisheries Society, its mem- 

 bers and friends, with acknowledgments to all for assist- 

 ance given in the production of this paper, it is concluded 

 with the sentiment of Evans that no great stretch of imagi- 

 nation is required for us to see and conclude that the whole 

 question of the commercial fisheries, not only of the Great 

 Lakes bordering upon the two countries, but all waters pro- 

 ducing marketable fish, is not only of national, but of inter- 

 national importance, and that, if we would conserve that 

 which is of vital importance to the food supply of a conti- 

 nent, we must have protective size limits that will afford 

 each fish an opportunity to at least once produce its kind 

 before capture; and you are urged, after deliberation, to 

 write into your reports plainly the best methods required to 

 produce such results, and to write across the heavens above 

 this continent such ruling that he who runs may read, that 

 states and provinces may have no excuse for lack of har- 

 mony in the laws of protection and conservation, and that 

 justice and fair dealing may prevail. 



