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servation and propagation of food fish in the great 
lakes.” 
This meeting appointed a special committee which met 
at the Chamber of Commerce in Rochester, New York, 
on November roth, 1891, at which meeting a series of 
resolutions was adopted, which were afterwards reported 
to the final meeting at Hamilton, Ontario, December 
8th, 1891, and there finally adopted. The portion of the 
resolutions which pertain to the matter under consider- 
ation in this article is as follows, viz. : | 
“Resolved, That this body regards with disfavor any 
movement looking towards the turning over to the 
United States Government the work of the State Com- 
missions in propagating and planting commercial fish in 
the great lakes; 
“That the jurisdiction over the State Fisheries belongs 
naturally to the adjoining States, whose interest in their 
success is paramount to that of the United States as a 
whole; and 
“That there is an abundant field for the concurrent 
action of the bordering States and of the General Gov- 
ernment, and anything which would detract from the 
State’s interest in this matter will be detrimental to the’ 
end aimed at, of restocking the waters of the great 
lakes ; 
“And we recommend a course which will encourage 
and stimulate greater interest and larger expenditures in 
this great work by the several bordering States, and at the 
same time increased interest in the subject by the United 
States Fish Commission ; 
“Resolved, Further, that this body earnestly approves 
of the action of Congress in making an appropriation for 
the establishment of a hatching station on or near the 
St. Lawrence River for the propagation of white fish and 
other commercial fish; and of the purpose of the United 
States Fish Commissioner to carry out the provisions of 
that appropriation ; and we see nothing in this movement 
