APPLICATION OF REPORT. 
The subjects and recommendations of this report are intended for the con- 
sideration not only of those members of whom the conference was originally offi- 
cially composed, but of all who by invitation have since become officially con- 
nected with it as representatives of the interest of their respective States. 
(Signed) RICHARD U. SHERMAN, 
On behalf of Committee. 
On motion of Mr. Stewart, seconded by Mr Wilmott, the report was received 
and adopted. 
The secretary read a letter from H. H.Warner, President of the St. Lawrence 
Angling Association, which, on motion, was received and ordered to be published, 
. RocHeEster, N.Y., Dec. 7th, 1891. 
> £A.D.«. Stewaart, Esq., 
Game and Fish Commissioner, Province of Ontario, Court House, Hamil- 
ton, Ontario. 
Deak S1r,—During the past summer and fall I have been absent in 
Europe, and have not had laid before me the action of the International Fish, 
Commissioners, or the Ontario Fish Commissioners, and I find it impossible to. 
attend the meeting in Hamilton to-morrow, but I wish to express to the differ- 
ent Commissioners my hearty approval of their efforts to devise ways and means. 
for protecting and stocking the waters in your jurisdiction, and I hope you will 
devise ways and means that will reach the aim we have in view. 
Tam in favour of using every means possible for stocking the inland waters of 
our country and Canada, at the same time, I do not think it wise to allow the 
fish we have to be destroyed while we are using our efforts to propagate fish that. 
ean be taken out at the will of the netter. Onlya few years ago it was a very easy 
matter to secure sufficient fish—white and lake trout—trom the lakes of Ontario to. 
supply this section of the country and Canada, but it is a well-known fact that. 
to-day fishing for white and lake trout is almost abandoned from the fact that there 
is not a sufficient quantity of fish worthy the efforts of the netters. Whitefish and 
lake salmon‘are easily propagated, put there is a species of fish in lake Ontario 
that is very difficult to propagate, and which is about the only game fish left for 
anglers; and I think it the duty of every citizen of both countries to rise up in 
arms for the purpose of defending this celebrated fish, namely, the black bass. 
When this fish is once exterminated, or nearly so, it will be about as difficult to. 
restore it as it has been to restore many of the game birds and animals of this 
locality, which have become practically extinct. Perhaps I go to the extreme, 
but I am willing to say that I have very little confidence in the honour of the 
average netter or fisher, for market... Some argue that fish permitted to be netted 
should be governed by size or weight. I will admit in regard to the whitefish and 
lake salmon, that this may be about the only means of controlling the catching 
and netting of them, but I question very seriously if allowed to catch down ta 
within a pound or two pounds, whether they will throw them back, but will de- 
stroy them,or injure them in taking them from the nets. I am satisfied by carefully 
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