ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING 
OF THE 
Fash-C ulturals Assocateaun 
Owing to the absence of the President, the Vice-President, 
Mr. George Shepherd Page, called the meeting to order. Mr. 
Page made some remarks upon the regular attendance of the 
old members, whom he was pleased to see present. They were 
men who not only kept themselves informed upon all progress 
in fish-culture from year to year, but made it a point to know of 
its progress from week to week. He was glad to see that there 
were evidences of progress on every hand, and on inspecting 
the fishes in*the market he had noticed that shad are beginning 
to be plenty from all the rivers; a result which he attributed 
some little to the efforts of this association, as it was largely 
through its efforts that an interest in fish-culture had been 
awakened, and a fishery commission for the United States 
created. The trout exhibition which the members had just seen 
illustrated the extent of fish-culture. Trout were being largely 
cultivated in all favorable localities, and might yet be supplied 
at a figure which would place them within the reach of people 
who cannot afford to buy them now. Within the memory of 
members present the first black bass was transported over the 
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Wheeling Creek to Cumber- 
land, in the tank of a locomotive tender, and turned into the 
Potomac. They have gradually been introduced North and 
South, and are found in plentiful numbers on the fish stalls of 
the interior towns. He remembered that in 1869 thirty-one black 
bass were planted in a lake in Maine, and their progeny is to be 
