TWELFTH ANNUAL MEETING 
OF THE 
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The Annual Meeting of the Association was held in the 
Farmers’ Club rooms of the Cooper Institute, New York, on 
Wednesday and Thursday, June 6th and 7th, President Page in 
the chair. On opening, the President said: 
“A year has rolled round since our last meeting, and there 
are evidences on every hand that the good work is progressing, 
It can be said with truth that, since the beginning of fish-culture 
in the United States, there is no other branch of industry that 
has made such progress. It has spread from Maine to Cali- 
fornia, and from Minnesota to Texas, until nearly every State 
and Territory has its Fish Commission, and most of them have 
an appropriation to work with. These funds have been put in 
the hands of Commissioners, who give their time and energies 
to the work, and but few receive any compensation for it other 
than the knowledge that they are doing good to their fellow 
men. It will be needless for me to go into detail in this matter, 
for I see before me men who have for years carried on the work 
in its broadest form for the National Government, and who are 
familiar not only with the work which they have been engaged 
in, but are also familiar with the whole literature of the subject: 
and know what fish-culturists in other lands have done. I 
might, however, be permitted to refer to the efforts in stocking 
waters heretofore unknown to the black bass, which has come to 
be known as the American game fish. In the West and in the 
