EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING. 45 
Mr. REINECKE: Fish are getting scarcer, and if they con- 
tinue to decrease at the same rate for the next ten years, they 
~will be a luxury, instead of food for the people. I hope that 
something may be done to stop the sale of small fish in the mar- 
ket. I will make the meshes of my nets five inches. (Ap- 
plause.) 
Mr. Green: I never heard a pound-netter talk so before. 
Mr. Hatiock: Here isa piece of pumice thrown up by vol- 
canic action in the Gulf of Mexico, where fish have been killed 
by the thousands by a submarine volcano, and the fishermen im- 
poverished in consequence. The same thing occurred in 1853. 
The eruptions are intermittent. 
Mr. A. S. FULLER sent a specimen of the belestoma, which was 
examined by the members, and declared by Mr. McGovern as 
identical with the one which he found attacking his trout. 
Mr. Trimsie, said he had seen eels going up Fairmount 
Dam at Philadelphia, and in the spring young eels can be seen in 
countless numbers in the eddies for a distance of one hundred 
miles above. 
A member asked what was the smallest eel ever found, but 
no one semed to know. 
Mr. RoosrveLt: There would seem to be a difference in 
the spawning season of eels in different localities. Long Island 
appears to form an exception in this respect. 
Mr. Buackrorp here exhibited a large eel with full ovaries. 
Mr. Green: If this is spawn it is what we have always 
called “ eel-fat.’ There are no eels above Lake Ontario except 
those which have been placed there. 
Mr. ConseLyea: Young eels are plentiful in Long Island 
streams in April, and can be seen in swarms at that time. 
Mr. Roosevett thought that eels move at night. 
