4'^ Tliirli/srn-nlli An nun I Merlin;/ 



j'cssors ill tile Mc,ii-ill I ■|ii\('rsit y. in (■(invent ion in Montreal, ask 

 that the clul.s of the |u-ovinees of (,)uehec and New I'.rnnsw ick 

 1)(> thrown oficii to the piihlie. They were asked why Ihey did not 

 lish for sahnoii in the other rivers up tliere. They said tlion' 

 were no sahnon there, they had all heeii taken out I Is my reso- 

 lution ill line with the pi'oteelion sentiment ? Now we ha\c a 

 lot of Americans who i^o into Canada in eluhs. I am a cluli 

 meinher myself. Fiefore the close season commences in Canada 

 there are hundreds of pounds of hrook trout taken ott' the spawn- 

 ing beds in tlie lakes and streams of Canada. I'erha])s tlie .\iner- 

 ican Fisheries Society does not lia\c anylhinu' to do with th- 

 Dominion of Canada; Imt k't nie tell you gentlemen, you cannot 

 divorce the question of the food supply as between the Dominion 

 of Canada and the United States. Xew York state alone eats 

 more Canadian fish than Canadian ])eo])le do. \\"liy? Because 

 they need the iish and Canada needs the money. It is not a 

 hannful thing, I am sure, to ask protection where the law is not 

 ])ut on soon enough, and where it is not kept on long enougli. 

 so that it protects at neither end in certain localities. 



I have been forct'd to realize liere tliis afternoon that in 

 Pennsylvania and in other states bordering on tlu' great lakes 

 everything is all right. As a citizen of Xew York state I want to 

 say that we are in trouble, are willing to own it and ask you for 

 help. Will you give it to us? 



Mr. George M. Brown, of Detroit. ^licli. : \\"\\h us the close 

 season begins the 1st of ^lay and ends tlie "^Oth of dune. Tliat 

 is the whole state where the l)ass are not off theii' s])awning \k'^\> 

 when the close season ends. 1 am in faxor of the resolution for 

 the protection of tlie lisli. The reason we ha\c not changed the 

 law^ in Michigan is l)ecaus(,' tlic local lishermen ha\e had moix' iii- 

 liuence in tlie legislature' than all the friends of game protection. 



Mr. Atkins: There is an ahundance of law already in that 

 direction. This resolution pi-oceeds on the ground that we need 

 legislation to protect the lish. r>ut there is an ahundance of law 

 in almost every state. rrol)ahly thei-e are some points that could 

 be amended, hut 1 take it thai in almost any state in the union 

 it would lie quite easy to get those amendments made if the mat- 

 ter were ])ro])erly ])resented to the legislature. So it seems to 



