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liy tlu' licensed (ishei'iiieii of the province rciicli the I'niled 

 Slates direct t'l'oni ihe nets, thus e\;idin.ii- with iin|iuiiitv es)ii()n- 

 a<i'(' or iiis])ecti()n hy |ii'(i\ iiicial ollicials." 



Xow you see. ueiil leiiien. ihei'e is whci'c \on put \(ini- lintel" 

 on what is a soi'e spot to us. If we had an intei-nat ional a.i^ree-' 

 meiil as to llie size of tile lish. we would know that the (isli was 

 leu'idly eauiiht and legally sliippe(l: hut when we know as a ))osi- 

 tive fact that lai'^c (plant it ies of lish way under our le^al size are 

 iz'oin.ii' into your niarkels. it rises in the ,«i-or,n'e of our people. 

 And that is another rtwisoii why a.izain I plead with you to I rv 

 and hrin^- ahont some interpro\ iiicial and interstate iiirornial 

 conrereiice and try and ai'raiiii't' these niattei-s so that we can .u'ei 

 alon^i" much hetter to.uetlier. 



''''J''o devise means for eft'ectivo iiis])eetion is iirii'tMitly re- 

 quired, and not further jiroof of ownership and control hy 

 American fish companies, a fact already so well estahlished. 'J'lie 

 fish of onr lakes, rivers and streams are a ^rand heritage left 

 ns by nature to be used wisely for the benefit of all, and not for 

 the purpose of being exterminated to satisfy tlu' greed and ra- 

 pacity of a few ]»oworfnl and dominating alien lish companies.'' 



Xow, gentlemen, that is language stronger than I have used, 

 and that is language from the de])uty bead of the dei)artment of 

 fisheries of the jn'ovince of Ontario. 



With those facts in view, and with the knowK'dge that you 

 have in reft'rence to the fisheries of these (ireat Lakes, in which 

 you are undouhteilly as much interested as we. and in which 

 we ha\X' as great a share as you. I do tiaist and hope, gentlemen, 

 that you will in a sense forget during your lahors sometinu's ilu' 

 more scientific and interesting ]iortions of the work of the so- 

 ciety, and I'cnienihei- the practical ap])lication of the theories and 

 experiments you are so iiohly carrying out. 



One thing which 1 ha\-e leai'iied since I ari'i\ed here has gixcn 

 me a great deal of pleasure, and that is the 1 reineiidoiislv good 

 work being done hy your se\cral coniiuissions. I lind from Mr. 

 .Meehan that some (iuo. tOO.ddO of fry have heeii juit in the waters 

 mainly in the lakes alone, from his lialcheries. and I do think 

 that. e\cn if you are getting S.") per cent of our lish. ymi are 

 certainly putiing in ten limes as niucli fry as we are: there is no 

 (luestion or doiihl ahoul that. ! Iia\e to apologize in a sense 



