INTERNATIONAL FISHERY ASSOCIATION. 
On January 25, 1898, at the close of a session of the National Fishery Congress, 
convened at Tampa, Fla., persons interested in the formation of an international 
fishery association met. Prof. Herman C. Bumpus, of Brown University, Providence, 
B. I., a member of the Rhode Island Fish Commission, was made temporary chairman, 
and Dr. Hugh M. Smith, of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, was 
made temporary secretary. The following letters were read: 
[Society for Professional and Technical Instruction in the Marine Fisheries.] 
25 Quai Saint-Michel, 
Dr. H. M. Smith, Paris, November 19, 1897. 
United States Fish Commission: 
We will hold at Dieppe, in the latter part of August, 1898, an International Congress of Marine 
Fisheries under the presidency of M. Perrier, member of the Institute. We will organize in 1900 a 
third International Congress. If you organize at the Congress of Tampa an International Fish 
Society, this society would have charge of the organization of the Congress of Dieppe and of that of 
Paris in 1900. 
I hope that you have requested the minister of marine to be represented at the Congress of 
Tampa. If not, it would be necessary to do so immediately, in order that we may avail ourselves of 
the opportunity. 
Please accept, dear doctor, the assurance of my highest consideration. 
E. Cache ux, 
President of the Society for Professional and Technical 
Instruction in the Marine Fisheries. 
Paris, January 14, 1898. 
Mr. President: Not being able, to my regret, to be present with you at this time, I desire to 
announce to the members of the Congress at Tampa, that the Second International Congress of 
Fisheries and Agriculture will assemble at Dieppe on September 5, 1898. At the general meeting the 
following questions will be considered: 
1. The economical transportation of fish by railroads. 
2. Modifications of the rules relating to lights on fishing vessels, to avoid collisions. 
3. Actual conditions of oyster-culture in France, and of the culture of mollusks. 
4. Mutual agreements among sea fishermen to provide remedies in case of loss of apparatus, etc. 
5. Effects of trawling near the coast. 
At the meetings of the sections various questions of interest will be discussed, among which I 
will cite : 
Diseases caused by the consumption of fish and shellfish taken from polluted waters. 
Practical means of improving the lodgings of marine fishermen. 
Charts of fishing banks. 
I have addressed to you by the same mail a report of the proceedings of the first congress. 
It will be desirable that the United States unite with us in organizing the International Society 
of Marine Fisheries or, rather, a permanent committee which will interest itself in such international 
congresses, and especially that which will be held in Paris in 1900. 
Please accept the assurances of my highest esteem. E. Cacheux, 
President of the Society for Professional and Technical 
Instruction in the Marine Fisheries. 
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