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both pleased and surprised when the exhibit from Norway 
was being installed to find there was a product consisting 
of the tanned skin of a fish, one of the commonest fishes 
we have on the Atlantic coast, which is beautiful, and 
which we had never thought of utilizing. I observe that 
Russia also has the same thing, together with various 
things made of this skin. I refer to the skin of the com- 
mon wall-fish, as it is called in New England, catfish. 
In the department of angling, I think there is much 
which will interest the disciples of Izaak Walton. I deem 
it especially appropriate, tgo, that the gentlemen inter- 
ested in fishing for sport and in gaining that specially 
' pleasing recreation which can be found only on streams 
and ponds and lakes and ocean, will see immediately in 
front of the cases containing rods, reels, flies and the other 
paraphernalia in which they delight, what the fishculturist 
is doing to fill the streams and make it possible for the 
present and future generations to gain health in trying to 
reduce the numbers of fish in our waters. 
This morning we had a very interesting paper from Dr. 
Borodine showing graphically the relative importance of 
fishculture as carried on by this and other countries. 
Those figures speak for themselves, and it needs no words 
of mine to emphasize them. I may, nevertheless, be par- 
doned for expressing my feelings on the importance of 
this work as bearing upon the success of our commercial 
fisheries and the health and well-being of those thousands 
who only seek recreation and relief from exhausting work 
on the banks of our interior waters or along our coast 
line. To-day we have a large country, sparsely settled in 
certain sections, but, nevertheless, it is apparent to all of 
you gentlemen who have been connected with this work 
that there is danger of depletion of those species of fish 
which inhabit our interior waters. Our population is in- 
creasing at a phenomenal rate, and the day is not far dis- 
tant when the food of the future man will depend largely 
