164 Tzventy-ninth Annual Meeting 



ADDRESS OF MR. GRANT M. MORSE, STATE GAME AND FISH 

 WARDEN, PORTLAND, MICH. 



Mr. Morse, being- invited by the President to tell the Society 

 something" about his work in Michigan, said: 



"I am not prepared to talk for record, but will be very glad 

 to give you something of an idea of the work we are doing in 

 Michigan for the protection and perpetuation of our wild life. 



"Along this line I was very favorably impressed with the 

 remarks made in one of the papers, expressing the wish that all 

 State Commissions would work in harmony with this Society. 

 I have enjoyed very much this meeting, and have conceived the 

 idea that if we do work together with the protective agencies in 

 the different states, much better work may be done by the 

 exchange of ideas, and to that end we hope to add a little at the 

 meeting next year at Milwaukee. 



"In Michigan we have a State Fish Commission, which ha.s 

 to do with the propagation and planting of fishes. The propaga- 

 tion of the commercial fishes — whitefish and lake trout — last year, 

 the last two years in fact, has been turned over to the U. S. Fish 

 Commission, antl the attention of the State Fish Commission has 

 been given entirely to the inland waters. The fishes of the Great 

 Lakes furnish food for the people of all the States, and I think 

 it perfectly proper that the U. S. Commission should care for the 

 work of propagating. 



"The work of protection we deem in Michigan to be very 

 important in connection with our propagating and planting, in 

 that we are able to protect the young fishes to an age when they 

 may be properly taken, and we deem this feature in our Great 

 Lakes one of the most important, or really it is the main feature, 

 that will lead to the perpetuation of the food fishes in those waters. 

 We have fixed in our State upon a weight limit — two pounds for 



