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gTeat lakes over the other states and provinces bordering upon 

 the same. 



Mr. Fullerton: I rise to a question of personal privilege. 

 We are all anxious to get to the other meeting, and let the gentle- 

 man speak to the resolution. 



Mr. Wilson : I will admit the resolution without further ar- 

 gument. 



Mr. Titcoml) : By means of this resolution which you want 

 to get through, do you want to take whitefish and also give them 

 a close season ? 



Mr. Wilson : I want the resolution just as it was accepted by 

 the referee. 



Mr. Titeomb : Does that contemplate the protection of the 

 whitefish during the spawning season ? 



Mr. Wilson : Yes, sir. 



Mr. Titeomb : You ought to hear the three papers which are 

 competing for a prize on this very question, as to how to improve 

 the production of whitefish. Elvery one of those papers makes 

 different arguments, but each one of them advocates fishing for 

 the whitefish during the spawning season when they are in their 

 best condition, and stopping the fishing for them during the 

 period other than the spawning season, but that the eggs of all 

 these whitefish caught during the spawning season be put into 

 the hatcheries. Xow the resolution, as you want to pass it, is in 

 direct opposition to the argument of these three authorities. 

 That, I suppose, is the reason that these gentlemen here who are 

 on that committee, have opposed it. 



Dr. Birge : Since I have been drawn into this matter by the 

 statements of the gentleman who just had the floor, I wash to say 

 that I did not understand that I was a referee in the sense that 

 the committee was bound to accept what was put before it. Mr. 

 Meehan asked me, since I had proposed this method, if I would 

 not talk the matter over and see if a resolution could not be 

 framed which might be accepted. x\s this resolution was pre- 

 sented I understood that by the use of the term "'fresh water," 

 shad and salmon were excluded from its terms. 



