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TABLE OF RESOLUTIONS 



ADOPTED AT THE 



INTERNATIONAL GAME AND FISH CONFERENCE 



BEFORE REFERRED TO. 



1. "Resolved, That provisions ought to be introduced into the laws of all 

 the States and Provinces represented in this Conference, forbidding the taking 

 and having in possession of salmon trout and whitefish of the weight of less than 

 two pounds each, and bass of the weight of less than one pound, and blue pike 

 of less weight than three-quarters of a pound." 



2. " Resolved, That it be recommended to the Congress of the United States 

 the importance of authorizing and directing to be made, through the United 

 States Fish Commission, a full and careful biological survey of the Great Lakes 

 with a view of determining the character and plentifulness of the food, and 

 the habits and migration of commercial fish." 



3. " Resolved, That the United States Commissioner be required to urge 

 upon congress the necessity of granting an appropriation to permit the detail 

 of a force of competent and skilled persons, to ascertain and mark in detail 

 upon suitable charts for public use and distribution, the location of the spawn- 

 ing beds of the whitefish, salmon trout and other commercial fish in the Great 

 Lakes, whereon the fry of these fish artificially propagated may be placed 

 where the fish naturally cast their ova." 



4. " Resolved, That the members of this Conference from the Dominion of 

 Canada and the States represented respectively, be requested to take the text 

 of the Game and Fish code prepared by the New York State Commissioners, 

 and consider the same with reference to the applicability of its provisions to 

 their own purposes, and to indicate thereon what provisions may he acceptable 

 to them, and what changes they may deem advisable to be made to suit their 

 separate wants, so that at the final meeting of the Conference an agreement 

 may be come to in respect to all the provisions upon which legislation is desired." 



5. " Resolved, That this Convention heartily approves of the New York 

 Codification Bill with the single exception of the allowance of spring shooting. 

 And we in conference assembled wish to ask the New York Commission to recon- 

 sider this point and to adopt as the only shooting season, the dates in each 

 year between the 15th day of September and December loth or 30th." 



6. "Resolved, That this body regards with disfavour any movement look- 

 ing towards the turning over to the United States Government the work of 

 the State Commissions in propagating and planting commercial fish in the Great 

 Lakes. 



" That tho jurisdiction over the lake fisheries belongs naturally to the 

 adjoining States, whose interest in their success is paramount to that of the 

 United States as a whole, and 



" That there is an abundant field for the concurrent action of the border- 



