American Fisheries Society. 3 
T congratulate you on the success of this meeting. We have 
been here strictly for business. Every man has faithfully and 
well performed his duty. 
I had prepared here a comparative statement of the total 
output of the Bureau of Fisheries for the years 1899 to 1905 
inclusive, but modesty forbids me to present it. 
I thank you for your attention. (Great applause.) 
(Report received and filed. ) 
The report of the resolutions committee was resumed as 
follows : 
Mr. Meehan: Mr. Chairman, the next resolution originates 
in the committee and naturally carries with it the approval of 
Commissioner Bowers, and is as follows: 
Resolved, that the secretary of this society be requested to 
forward a copy of the following resolution to the Secretary of 
the Department of Commerce and Labor of the United States: 
To the Hon. Secretary of the Department of Commerce and 
Labor. 
Dear Sir: The American Fisheries Society is organized for 
the purpose of encouraging and expanding the work of fish cul- 
ture in the United States. Among its members are nearly all the 
leading Fish Commissioners of the several states, and nearly 
all the chief Fish Culturists in the Union, including the United 
States Commissioner of Fisheries and his able assistants. So 
important are the proceedings of the Society, that the Depart- 
ment of Fisheries of the great commonwealth of Pennsylvania 
requires all its superintendents to be present at the meetings, and 
all the states which lead im fish cultural work regularly have 
representatives present. 
In view of these facts it seems important and in the interest 
of the work of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, that the 
same policy as that adopted by Pennsylvania and which was 
first proposed by Commissioner Bowers last year with respect to 
his own staff, be regularly in force hereafter, and this society 
respectfully asks that you will give your approval thereto. 
Mr. Bowers: I heartily favor that and ask that it be 
adopted by a rising vote. 
