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Mr. Wilson : Certainly. 



Dr. Birge : I understood also, thoiigli I did not express this 

 to the gentleman, that I did not suppose that the regulation of 

 fisheries in the great lakes was contemplated in the resolution, 

 since the matter of the regulation of these fisheries is now in the 

 hands of an International Commission, and the regulations are 

 now being drawn up by a commission with which we have noth- 

 ing to do. I called the attention of the gentleman to the fact 

 that the whitefish of the inland lakes cannot be caught at any 

 other time than the breeding season, but that if this resolution 

 were adopted the association would be bound to maintain that 

 form of protection, and so to exclude these fish permanently 

 from any use whatever in an economic way. I said that I did 

 not believe in that, although my own state has such a law, and 

 the gentleman said he supposed in cases of that sort exceptions 

 would be made, no doubt wisely, by the legislatures of the vari- 

 ous states. I knew, however, that there was this exception and 

 called his attention to it, but I saw nothing in the resolution as 

 drawn up, which should have prevented him from offering it to 

 the committee. There was nothing in my relation to it to hin- 

 der the committee on resolutions from using the same freedom 

 with that as with any other resolution l^efore them. 



President: I want to call attention to one thing, and it is 

 this : Mr. Wilson was speaking to a question of personal jn'ivi- 

 lege. The only matter that could call for delate at present is his 

 resolution to reconsider the vote. Are you ready to discuss that 

 resolution ? 



Mr. A. Kelly Evans, Toronto, Canada : As the only repre- 

 sentative here from the Dominion of (*anada, possil)ly I might 

 be spared a few minutes in consideration of the fact that the 

 Dominion of Canada owns the other half of the great lakes. I 

 have just heard the gentleman who sat down make the statement, 

 if I understand him correctly, that whitefish are caiight at no 

 other time Imt in their spawning season. 



Dr. Birge : In the inland lakes. 



Mr. Evans : I have lately been i)artaking of a great many 

 whitefish in mv own countrv, caught at this season of the vear. 



