180 American Fisheries Society 



Rules and Regulations of the Connecticut Board of Fish- 

 eries and Game, with Remarks Relative to Connecticut 

 Game and Fish Industries, by Mr. John M. Crampton, 

 State Superintendent of Fisheries and Game of Con- 

 necticut. 



Mr. Crampton's remarks were directed especially to 

 the depletion of the shore and river fisheries owing to 

 the lack of proper laws to regulate pollution, the seining 

 of small fish and the placing pound nets in the mouths of 

 streams. Discussion followed at some length by Messrs. 

 John W. Titcomb, Henry B. Ward, Daniel B. Fearing, 

 Geo. H. Graham, John P. Woods and W. 0. Buck. 



The session then adjourned for an automobile tour 

 through certain parts of the city, terminating at the 

 Southern Yacht Club. 



Tuesday Evening Session, October 17, 1916, at the 

 Southern Yacht Club. 



Professor Henry B. Ward, of the University of Illinois, 

 presented an address on the migration of the Pacific sal- 

 mons, illustrated by numerous lantern slides. 



Dr. Hugh M. Smith, United States Commissioner of 

 Fisheries, spoke on "Some of the Features of the Work 

 of the U. S. Fisheries," illustrating his remarks with lan- 

 tern slides and motion pictures. One reel showed the 

 work of the Bureau of Fisheries and of various western 

 states in the propagation of the Pacific salmons ; another 

 covered the lobster propagation work of the Bureau of 

 Fisheries on the Atlantic Coast ; another represented ex- 

 tensive operations in the Fisheries of the Great Lakes, 

 and the fourth reel showed the character of the import- 

 ant rescue work of the Bureau of Fisheries in reclaiming 

 fishes stranded during the overflow periods of the Mis- 

 sissippi River and its tributaries. 



Mr. M. L. Alexander, President of the Louisiana De- 

 partment of Conservation, showed a motion picture reel 

 on Louisiana bird life. 



During the evening the glee club and orchestra of the 

 Sophie Newcomb College for Women of Tulane Univer- 



