138 Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting. 
Fourth. Stringent laws should be passed to prevent the 
taking of any kind of fish at any place during the spawning 
season. 
Fifth. Laws should be made to carry out the above sugges- 
tions and to put a heavy penalty for having in possession any 
net of a size not large enough to permit the free passage of un- 
dersized fish. 
Sivth. The passage of a uniform law by the states, fixing 
the minimum size of fish to be had in possession or offered for 
sale, thus preventing an adjacent state from receiving in its 
market fish of this prohibited size, which otherwise offers an 
inducement to the fisherman to evade laws of his own state and 
prevents the adjacent state from aiding him in its violation by 
taking from him undersized fish for sale. 
Seventh. Putting a heavy penalty on railroad and trans- 
portation companies for carrying out of the state fish which are 
prohibited to be sold within the state. 
I believe that the solution of this problem of fish protection 
lies in these two important features: First, the education of 
the fisherman along the lines suggested above and, second, the 
prohibition of certain kinds of nets and th* regulation of other 
nets as to the size of the mesh. 
I thank this Society for permitting me to express my views 
concerning fish protection. I only regret that my experience 
has not been of such a character as to permit me to make valua- 
ble suggestions for the protection of fish that you are striving 
so hard to increase for the benefit of the people of our state and 
country. 
