i) ae FISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
AFTERNOON SESSION. 
The meeting was called to order by the Vice-President, Mr. 
Geo. SHEPARD Pace, who announced that the nomination of offi- ' 
cers for the ensuing year was now in order, and appointed as a 
nominating committee Dr. W..M. Hudson, Asa French, and Geo. 
Lamphear. 
The report of the Treasurer was then read and accepted. 
The following resolution was offered by Mr. PHIL.IPs: 
Resolved, That in case members do not pay their fees and are 
delinquent for two years, they shall be notified by the Treasurer, 
and if the amount due is not then paid within a month, that they 
be, without further notice, dropped from the roll of member- 
ship. 
The resolution was accepted. 
Mr. James ANNIN, JR., gave a practical illustration of strip- 
ping eggs from live brook-trout, and impregnating them with 
milt obtained in the same way from the male. The fish were 
brought alive in cans from Mr. Annin’s ponds at Caledonia, 
New York. 
Mr. Hauiock then read a very interesting paper entitled 
“The Shore-Fisheries of Labrador.” 
The Canadian salt-water fisheries yield an annual revenue to 
the Dominion of about twelve millions of dollars, of which fully 
one-half is derived from the coast of Labrador. 
Within the single district lying near the eastern extremity of 
Belle Isle Strait, and embracing only about fifty miles of coast 
line, the produce of the cod, salmon, and herring fishing, is valued 
at fully $5,000,000. A summer trip to this locality of busy, and 
by no means fragrant operations, is one of the most interesting 
that can be undertaken by the student, rambler, or curiosity 
hunter. 
From Belle Isle to the Moravian Missions on the North At- 
lantic Coast, in lat. 56 deg., a stretch of nearly 600 miles, the fish- 
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