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not tliiiik that you can ever hold a female shad until she ripens, 

 on account of the kind of fish being caught. Now, if shad will 

 spawn at a tcinpcraturo down to 50° or 55° it might be possible 

 lor you to do it. To my mind that is the salvation of your shad 

 w'oi-k on tlie eastern rivers, if you can ever get them so that you 

 can hold the female shad until they ripen, as you do the white- 

 fish. Of course at an early day we did not think we could hold 

 the whitefish. Now it is a matter of so many fish, so many eggs. 



^Ir. Meehan : It seems to me this is a matter which calls for 

 the best skill of all the fish culturists who have anything to do 

 with rearing shad, because we have no more serious proposition 

 before us to-day than the shad. There is apparent danger of its 

 becoming extinct. And unless something is done, or some means 

 is found, as Mr. Clark has stated, of penning those fish, I see 

 nothing before us but the loss of the shad in time. 



President: Can't you rear those fishes at the mouth of the 

 rivers ? Isn't that possible ? 



Mr. Meehan: If we could secure uniform legislation b.> 

 tween the states we might. Xew Jersey and Delaware have 

 passed what they call a uniform law. It is uniform as far as 

 it goes, but it did not have a thing to say about those long Swede 

 nets, in the lower part of the Bay. 



