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TABLE OF RESOLUTIONS 
ADOPTED AT THE 
INTERNATIONAL GAME AND FISH CONFERENCE 
BEFORE REFERRED TO. 
1. “ Resolved, That provisions ought to be introduced into the laws of all 
the States and Provinces represented in this Conference, forbidding the taking 
and having in possession of salmon trout and whitefish of the weight of less than 
two pounds each, and bass of the weight of less than one pound, and blue pike 
of less weight than three-quarters of a pound.” 
2. “ Resolved, That it be recommended to the Congress of the United States 
the importance of authorizing and directing to be made, through the United 
States Fish Commission, a full and careful biological survey of the Great Lakes 
with a view of determining the character and plentifulness of the food, and 
the habits and migration of commercial fish.” 
3. “ Resolved, That the United States Commissioner be required to urge 
upon congress the necessity of granting an appropriation to permit the detail 
of a force of competent and skilled persons, to ascertain and mark in detail 
upon suitable charts for public use and distribution, the location of the spawn- 
ing beds of the whitefish, salmon trout and other commercial fish in the Great. 
Lakes, whereon the fry of these fish artiicially propagated may be placed 
where the fish naturally cast their ova.” 
4. “ Resolved, That the members of this Conference from the Dominion of 
Canada and the States represented respectively, be requested to take the text 
of the Game and Fish code prepared by the New York State Commissioners, 
and consider the same with reference to the applicability of its provisions to 
their own purposes, and to indicate thereon what provisions may he acceptable 
to them, and what changes they may deem advisable to be made to suit their 
separate wants, so that at the final meeting of the Conference an agreement 
may be come to in respect to all the provisions upon which legislation is desired.” 
5. “ Resolved, That this Convention heartily approves of the New York 
Codification Bill with the single exception of the allowance of spring shooting. 
And we in conference assembled wish to ask the New York Commission to recon- 
sider this point and to adopt as the only shooting season, the dates in each 
year between the 15th day of September and December 15th or 30th.” 
6. “ Resolved, That this body regards with disfavour any movement look- 
ing towards the turning over to the United States Government the work of 
the State Commissions in propagating and planting commercial fish in the Great 
Lakes. 
“That the jurisdiction over the lake fisheries belongs naturally to the 
adjoining States, whose interest in their success is paramount to that of the 
United States as a whole, and 
“That there is an abundant fieid for the concurrent action of the border- 
