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they will have, that this is tlie sense of the American Fisheries* 

 Society. I know it will have a large influence, and be probably 

 one of the chief arguments they would use. If their attention 

 were called to it and the secretary was directed to see that their 

 attention was called to it at the proper time, I am satisfied that 

 it would have a good deal of influence. 



Mr. Fullerton : I thoroughly agree with Mr. Bower. T 

 think it pays to advertise, and everlastingly keep at it and we 

 certainly get before the people by that means. Secretary Pea- 

 body and I do not agree, when he says Connecticut is the only 

 state interested in the shad fishing down there. I take issue with 

 him. I am just as much interested in that as they are. I think 

 we are all interested together, all the states. What afEects the 

 shad fishing aft'ects us up in Minnesota, — we get cheaper fish. 

 The same with the whitefish interests and the trout interests of 

 Michigan. Down there in Michigan perhaps they are more in- 

 terested locally, but we are interested also. The more fish thev 

 catch in Michigan and other places, the better it will be for 

 Minnesota. 



Secretary Peabody : I did not mean to make quite so swee])- 

 ing a statement. I mean they would have to work out their own 

 salvation. 



Mr. Meehan : Is it in order to introduce a resolution? 



Mr. President : It is. 



The following resolution was then read Ijv ^Ir. W. E. 

 Meehan : — 



It is moved that a committee of five bo appointed which shall 

 draft a resolution on the lines adopted by the legislatures of 

 Minnesota and Wisconsin, ceding control of fishery legislation 

 to the federal government, and the secretary of this society is 

 directed to forward a copy to the fish commission of each state 

 with a request that it be introduced at the next session of the 

 legislature, and that every effort, be made to have it passed, and 

 the committee is directed to report before the close of the present 

 meeting. 



Mr. Clark : Mr. President, I second the resolution. 



