Resolutions 



AT the session of the Committee held on the afternoon of Tuesday, 

 November 2nd, 1915, the following resolutions were agreed to: 



Moved by Hon. O. T. Daniels, seconded by Dr. Jas. W. Robertson : 



RESOLVED, that the Committee commends very earnestly to the 

 Dominion and Provincial authorities whio are charged with the con- 

 servation and improvement of Canadian fisheries, the question of pro- 

 viding opportunities for vocational education suitable for those 

 employed in the industry ; and, 



RESOLVED, FURTHER, that the Committee most respectfully 

 recommends the institution, as soon as practicable, of simple Demon- 

 stration Stations, the employment of competent travelling instructors 

 and the distribution of well-illustrated bulletins dealing with the 

 practical problems arising from fishery occupations. 



Moved by Hon. A. E. Arsenault, seconded by Dr. Howard Murray : 



WHEREAS, the Committee heartily approves the efforts now being 

 made for the preservation of North American migrating birds, some 

 of which are seriously threatened with extinction, and learns with 

 satisfaction the attitude of the Provincial Governments in this connec- 

 tion ; now, therefore, be it 



RESOLVED, that the good offices of the Dominion Government be 

 solicited to negotiate a Treaty between Great Britain and the United 

 States, for the purpose of securing more effective protection for the 

 birds which pass from one country to another. 



Moved by Dr. Howard Murray, seconded by Dr. Jas. W. Rob- 

 ertson : 



RESOLVED, that the Committee learns with satisfaction of the 

 action of the Department of Fisheries, in increasing the number of 

 whitefish fry planted in the Great Lakes and hopes that the number 

 may be increased to that suggested as sufficient by the best authorities, 

 namely, 20,000 per square mile of whitefish area. 



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