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imposed upon the salmon canning industry, but not one cent of the 

 tax goes to the rehabihtation of the fisheries. 



I am very glad to have had this opportunity of speaking to 

 you for a few moments. I ask you all for your heartiest coopera- 

 tion with the Bureau. 



Mr. Leach : This Society can be a very important medium 

 for the elimination of differences between State Commissions and 

 the Bureau of Fisheries. For that reason I am very anxious to 

 have the State Commissioners meet with us next year in St. Louis 

 so that we can discuss these various problems. If we who are 

 interested in these matters meet personally and discuss these vari- 

 ous points of interest, little difficulties can be smoothed out and 

 relations established that will be useful not only to the persons 

 concerned but will add to the efficiency of both the State and Fed- 

 eral organizations. 



Mr. Avery : Would it not be desirable, in view of what Mr. 

 Leach has just said, and of what others have said in the last few 

 minutes, that the program of the next meeting of the Society be 

 made up with reference to that very thing? In preparing the pro- 

 gram for next year, could there not be incorporated some subjects 

 that would be of special interest to the State Commissioners and 

 that would result in getting and keeping more of them at the ses- 

 sions of the Society's meetings? 



Mr. Leach : I consider the sessions of the American FisAeries 

 Society a meeting point where the layman and the scientist can get 

 together and discuss their problems in a broad way. Many of the 

 fish commissioners are appointed for a limited period of time and 

 it is necessary for them to be educated as expeditiously as possi- 

 ble in the best methods of handling their organizations. Anyone 

 can attend our meetings and come in contact with men who have 

 worked up from the ranks ; he can meet scientists and practical men 

 interested in the everyday problems of fish culture. 



Prof. E. E. Prince, Commissioner of Fisheries, Canada : Mr. 

 President, I feel that I have already trespassed a great deal on 

 the time of this convention. I am sorry that we do not have a 

 larger representation from Canada at these meetings, but through 

 the published transactions we get a great deal of benefit — though 

 the personal contact to which Mr. Leach has alluded is undoubtedly 

 most beneficial and stimulating. 



Instead of referring particularly to our work in Cai^ada I 



