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]iro])()sitioii lookiii»i' toward the ])rotoetioii of fish we will sup- 

 port it. 



^[r. Wilson : I offered to amend my resolution l)efore the 

 committee tliis noon, and asked tliem Foi- suii-gestions on which 

 [ could l)ase an amendment. 



]\Ir. Seymour Bower: 'Vhv ri'solution as introduced makes 

 no ])rovision whatever for alh)winu- iish to lie caught for the pur- 

 pose of pro])agati()n, l)ut ahsolutely ])rohil)its the pro])agation of 

 fish in commercial waters, and we suggeste(l that that exception 

 1)0 made, and I notict' that it is taken care of. 



^\v. ^leehan : The ])reamhk' was of such a character that 

 the committee I'ould not su])port it. The l»road assertion was 

 made in the original resolution that there is a rapidly decreasing 

 sup])ly of fresh water fishes : tliat was not a matter that the 

 connnittee could suhscrihe to, and it so stated and the framer of 

 tlie rt'solution suhsequently lirouglit in an amendment which was 

 inserted, restricting the statement to "many of the states." At 

 first there was a sweeping general statement that the fish were 

 decreasing in all the streams of the country, and the other mem- 

 l)ers of the committee have stated the nuitter just as I under- 

 stand was the thought of the t'onnnittt'c. and we fidt that if we 

 couhl not ])resent the resolution with our approval in the form 

 in which it was. we could not doctor it. The question was, could 

 it he changed to meet with the general a])proval of the commit- 

 tee without framing something entirely different. If there was 

 something s])ecific, as Dr. Birge ]nit it, ]u-esented, T have no 

 douht the committee would he glad to do sonu'thing with it. 



^Ir. S. F. Fullerton. St. Paul. ]\linn.: As a memher of that 

 committee I should heartily endorse a resolution along the lines 

 suggested. I know the genthunan's heart is all right, and that 

 he wants to he right. 



:\[r. M. G. Sellers, Phila(leli)hia. Fa.: Speaking for the state 

 of Pennsylvania, I want to say that through the legislative com- 

 mittee of the Pennsylvania Fish Protective Association I was 

 largely instrumental in securing the passage of a law making the 

 open season for taking hass hegin on tlie \~)t]\ of Jiine, instead of 

 the 30th of ^lay. This was accom])lislu'd only after a great 



