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this morning, and also a very short paper by Mr. Perce 

 on "The Relations of Commercial and Sport Fishing — 

 Fair Play." With your permission, before we proceed to 

 business, I will read his report as chairman of the 

 Publicity Committee. 



To the Members of the American Fisheries Society: 



Permit me, as Chairman of the Publicity Committee to report simply 

 some general progress and to say that I still feel like reiterating the 

 suggestions made at earlier meetings. I have still further reason to 

 believe that a "whirlwind campaign" for members, by means of widely 

 distributed invitations, would prove successful to a very gratifying de- 

 gree. In line with this, let me state, that with the assistance of Mr. 

 Merrill, I could furnish the Society with approximately 3,000 names, 

 all more or less desirable prospects for membership in the Society. 

 Surely, similar lists could be obtained from some source in all the states. 



Again let me urge the advisablility of a magazine owned by the 

 Society and circulated among its members only, in the same manner 

 as the National Geographic Magazine. 



The formation of State Chapters of the Society surely would prove 

 a great advantage. There is an illustration of this in the formation of 

 that splendid, new association of Pacific Fisheries, which probably 

 could be to all intents and purposes, a portion of the American Fisher- 

 ies Society. 



I have every reason to believe that a National organization of at least 

 10,000 could be built up, if some modifications of this general scheme 

 were adopted and I think the Society could be made into a popular 

 one, without any danger to its present splendid standard of ethics and 

 scope and type of work. 



Respectfully submitted, 



H. Wheeler Perce, 

 Chairman Publicity Committee. 



The Relations of Commercial and Sport Fishing — 



Fair Play. 

 By Mr. H. Wheeler Perce, Chicago, III. 

 (see Transactions, December, 1915, pages 29-33.) 

 Read by President Fearing. 



Owing the lack of time the following papers were read 

 by title: 



More About the Paddle-Fish (Polyodon spathula) 



commonly called the Spoon-billed Cat 



By M. L. Alexander, 



President, Conservation Commission of Louisiana, 



New Orleans, La. 

 (See Transactions, December, 1915, pp. 34-39) 



