Transactions of the American 

 Fisheries Society. 



Tuesday, July 2S, 1907. 



Convention called to order at 12 m. by the Secretar)'-, Mr. 

 G<?orge F. Peabody, of Appleton, Wisconsin, at the Chamber of 

 Commerce, in the Reed Hotel building, Erie, Penn. 



The following progTam was presented : — 



"The Ciiltivation of Fishes in Sviall Ponds " Charles H. Town.send, 



New York Aquarium, Battery Park, N. Y. 

 "Planting Fish, versus Fry:' John L. Leary, U. S. Bureau of Fish- 

 eries, San Marcos, Texas. 

 "Some Ohservations on European Fisheries and Fish Culture" Dr. 



H. M. Smith. U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, D. C. 

 "The Respiration of a Lake," Edwabd A. Birge, College of Letters 



and Science, Madison, Wis. 

 "The Shad Work on the Delaware River for 1907 and Its Lessons" 



W. B. Meehan, Commissioner of Fisheries, Harrisburg, Pa. 

 "Recent Progress in Artifioial Propagation of Lobsters," Prof. A. D. 



Mead, Brown University, Providence, R. I. 

 "Experiments in Raising Black Bass by Taking the Nests Away 



from the Parents and Hatching the Eggs in Troughs," Edward 



A. BiRGE, College of Letters and Science, Madison, Wis. 

 "Progress in Fish Culture During the Past Year," John W. Titcomb, 



U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, D. C. 

 "The Influence of Politics Upon the Work of the Fish Culturist and 



How Fish and Game Protective Associations May Assist the 



Latter," A. Kelly Evans, Toronto, Canada. 

 "The Need of an International Fisheries Society," O. T. Olsen, 



Grimsby, England. 

 "The Protection of the Alaska Salmon Fisheries," Prof. Barton W. 



EVERMANN, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, D. C. 

 "The International Problem of the Proper Regulation of the 



Fisheries of the Great Lakes," A. Kelly Evans, Torontp, 



Canada. 

 "Time of Spawning of Rainbow Trout, and the Varieties of this 



Species," C. Raveret-Wattel, Director of Pisiculture, Dept. of 



Seine, Paris, France. 

 "The Necessity of the Protection of the Adult Lobster, in Order to 



Maintaiyi the Lobster Fisheries." G. W. Field, Chairman 



Massachusetts State Fish Commission, Boston, Mass. 



