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of tlic iioiiu llial you cmii pen up flic innlc sliad. and they will 

 i-ipcii. but tlif rcnialc shad \\v couldn"!. 



Mr. Mrchau: 'I'licu I should think tliciv ou.-ihl to he some 

 way of (iudiu,-- that out. We must iind it^ out., lluit is all. 



rrcsidrnt : If ^Ir. Clark is ri.iihl that the eliaiu'cs of salva- 

 tion d('])('nds on piumina' the female shad, youi- salvation is good 

 way olT. apparently. 



Mr. Samuel V. FuUerton, St. Paul : 1 su))pose you might 

 call me a crank on this federal control business. I have felt very 

 keenly on that subject for years. I have seen the course of states 

 trying to' pass laws, and everything turning out to be a farce. 

 That is what it is. .Minnesota, perhai)s, is worse off than any 

 other state in the Union, because we have got a water course oi 

 five thousand miles dividing ^linnesota, Canada and our sister 

 states, so that we know some of the evils spoken of here in Con- 

 necticut and in the Delaware. It seems to me the meat in the 

 cocoanut of this paper is these nets at the mouth of the ri\er. 

 G-et rid of them, and let the shad come up. It seems to me it 

 would he going a long way to solve this prohlem. It is all im- 

 portant, of course, to find a way to pen the female shad. I think 

 that ought to be persevered in, but it seems to me the first 

 thing to do is to get rid of tiliese netters. Don't let a net be 

 ])lace(l in the Delaware river at the mouth in the spawning sea- 

 son, unless they are after the eggs. If you don't have any fish 

 hy keeping the fishermen out of there, then find other means of 

 penning the shad. We pass resolutions every session on federal 

 control, then the thing dies, and nothing is done. Why not have 

 this society get out circulars and send them to every representa- 

 tive in Congress and every senator, urging this matter. If the 

 society has not money enough, I will head a suhscription list now 

 with $10 to help the thing along. We must work along practical 

 lines if we want to accomplish anything. It is all right to ])ass 

 resolutions; hut we want to go further than that; wo must 

 follow these resolutions up with work. Now. 1 have got jiledged 

 in our state of ^liimesota every re])resentat ive. the nine of them, 

 and the two senators, to vote for any measure that comes uii 

 along that line. Our state passed a resolution two years ago 



