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Fishes after Slockin.u- Waters l)y the 

 iiiul then lill in with some other paper-- 

 aiiv ol' these papers that we know lliai 

 1(1 Xew York peo])le will want to hear, 

 little hard for us to sori out what pajiers to 

 take 11}). We could tiike u]) Mr. Meehan's shad pai»er now and 

 we knew verv likely he could talk on shad afterwards also. 



Mr. :\leehaii: They have all the figuri's that ! will give. 



Mr. Clark: Jt is proposed to have this meeting, and do alt 

 the paper work we can this afternoon, and accept the invitation 

 of the committee this evening, and to-morrow morning at 7 :30, 

 for the hoat ride, and following that we will make another report. 



President : ^Mr. Clark, the secretary tells me that ^Ir. Town- 

 send's paper is not here. He thinks Mr. Townsend expects to he' 

 here. Suppose we snhstitnte in place of his paper the paper of 

 C. Ptaveret-Wattel. 



The paper first read will he that of Mr. (). M. Dennis, secre- 

 tary Maryland State Game and Fish Protective Association, 

 on "The Necessity of the State Making LaAvs for the Protection 

 of Food Fishes after Stocking Waters hy the State or Unitdl 

 States." 



Paper read hy the secretary, Mr. George F. Peal)0(ly. 



The pa])er was then discussed. 



Mr. W. E. ]\reehan. Commissioner of Fisheries, of Pennsyl- 

 vania, then read a paper on "The Shad Work on the Delaware 

 River for 1907 and Its Lessons," and the paper was discussed. 



During the discussion of the foregoing paper, the question 

 of federal supervision of all interstate waters came up incident- 

 ally and was considered as folhnvs : 



Mr. BoAver: It seems to me that is one of the strong [)oin1< 

 mentioned in regard to federal supervision. It seems to mv we 

 ought to have federal sujx'rvision of all interstate' and internr,- 

 tional waters. Xow, that question has heen talked alxnit for the 

 last two or three meetings of this society, and yet nothing ha< 

 heen done hy this society, it seems to me. we ought to go ahoui 

 it in a svsteniatic wav. There are no dissenting oi)inions. and 



