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hand, because to have complete success, both 
must work together. Very often politicians in¬ 
terfere with the work and ruin the labors of 
the fishculturist. Fortunately, our fishculture 
work has not been interfered with much by poli¬ 
ticians, but the protection, which must go hand 
in hand with propagation, has, and to that ex¬ 
tent we have suffered. 
Remedy .—A proper method of distributing the 
fry. They ought to be placed in the water as 
near as possible to where the parent fish would 
select for their spawning ground. A Federal 
law and a treaty with the Dominion of Canada, 
making uniform closed season on the Great 
Lakes, so as to protect those fish in the spawn¬ 
ing season. A license system for all market 
fishermen and a rigid inspection of their catch. 
No whitefish or lake trout allowed on the mar¬ 
ket in any State less than two pounds un¬ 
dressed. A sufficient number of boats owned 
by the Government of both countries to look 
after the planting of the fry and see the young 
are placed in the most natural surroundings. 
Those boats to patrol the lakes where fishing 
abounds, and their duty to not only see that 
all fishermen are licensed and that their catch 
conforms to law, but that the exact spawning 
grounds are located and no fishing allowed 
thereon, except for propagating purposes. That 
no fish be taken for their spawn except under 
the direct supervision of the proper authorities. 
That no gill nets be allowed during the time 
fish are taken for their eggs. That all fish 
not “ripe” or those already spawned be returned 
to the water with as little injury as possible. 
That the utmost care be exercised in the selec¬ 
tion of the men in charge of those boats. They 
should be honest, fearless and with ability to’ 
enforce the law without fear or favor. 
This applies to the Great Lakes or to our 
commercial fishing, but the problem in regard 
to our inland lake is just as trying. Care is not 
taken. When the fry are planted, people are 
allowed to catch any and all kinds regardless of 
size. Even the spawning seasons are encroached 
on, but especially is this true in regard to our 
Great Lakes, and our only salvation is Federal 
control. 
This Association ought to go on record, not 
simply pass resolutions (while good in them¬ 
selves as far as they go), but each State repre¬ 
sentative should go to his home determined to 
get his Congressman and Senators at Washing¬ 
ton committed to this proposition. Show them 
how our fish are disappearing, not through any 
fault of the propagation, but through the poor 
policy, or no policy, of the States bordering on 
the Great Lakes. Either put no fish in these 
waters whatever, if they are not protected, or 
else change our policy, for, I firmly believe that 
we can never do anything with the individual 
States. So our only salvation, if we would save 
our fish, is by the Congress of the United States 
first making a treaty with Canada, for any 
scheme that leaves out Canada, as far as the 
Great Lakes are concerned, would not be 
feasible. Then after the treaty is made, let the 
United States, with the co-operation of the Do¬ 
minion, assume control of not only the propa¬ 
gation, but the protection, and I predict here 
before this convention that we can have our 
old-time fishing restored in the Great Lakes, 
not only to what it was twenty years ago, but 
with the added knowledge that has come to 
the fishculturist-—an increase of a thousand fold. 
Resolved, That the members of the American 
Fisheries Society now assembled at Grand 
Rapids, Michigan, view with alarm the ^almost 
total depletion of our whitefish and lake trout 
from the waters of the Great Lakes. Ontario, to 
the north of us, is sending out a cry—“Stop fish¬ 
ing for five years.” We do not believe this solves 
the problem. We believe that lack of uniform 
laws between Canada and the different States 
bordering on the Great Lakes, the non-enforce¬ 
ment of the laws that we have, poor protection 
in the spawning season, and a total disregard of 
the size of fish caught by fishermen to be at the 
root of the evil. 
Resolved Further, That it is the sense of this 
meeting that Canada and the United States ought 
to form a treaty looking to the control of the 
fish in our Great Lakes, not only the stocking 
but the protection. 
Resolved Further, That we heartily commend 
the efforts that have been put forth looking to 
Federal Control, by the Hon. Geo. Shiras, 3d, of 
Pennsylvania, and that we here pledge him our un¬ 
divided support. 
Resolved Further, That a copy of this reso¬ 
lution be furnished to each of our Senators and 
Congressmen at Washington, also to each mem¬ 
ber of the Dominion House of Parliament. 
New England Fishing. 
Boston, Aug. 4. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
A sportsman friend from the southwestern part 
of Worcester county reported seeing a quail’s 
nest in which were eighteen eggs, only two of 
which failed of hatching. Another friend from 
one of the Cape towns, reports seeing a good 
number of quail about his neighborhood. 
Another caller from Plymouth county expressed 
some regret that he would be deprived of the 
opportunity to shoot some twelve or fifteen 
woodducks, that he has located, on account of 
the close season put on that species by the last 
legislature. So it seems we have a few left in 
the State. It is to be hoped there may be many 
more at the expiration of five years. A Middle¬ 
sex county farmer came in to tell me about a 
fine covey of a dozen quail on his premises, and 
several reports have come to hand indicating 
that 'the young birds are quite plentiful in some 
localities and are doing well. One observer says 
he rode many miles in a Cape town and saw but 
one quail. 
Dr. Woodward, of Middleboro, and his friend, 
Mr. Peck, of Connecticut, passed through Bos¬ 
ton yesterday on their way to Newfoundland, 
where they have been regularly for several sum¬ 
mers for grilse and salmon fishing. 
Pending the settlement by the courts of the 
case against Joseph F. Minon, of Natick, for 
boating and fishing on Lake Cochituate contrary 
to the regulations of the Metropolitan Water 
Board, Judge Loring of the Supreme Court has 
granted an injunction against the defendant. 
Minon has a fine cottage at Camp Pleasant, a 
resort on the shore of the lake, which has been 
patronized yearly by a large number of campers 
who have hitherto enjoyed the privileges of the 
lake with the exception of bathing rights. Minon, 
acting upon legal advice, proceeded to boat with¬ 
out the license required by the board and is 
making a test case, the result of which is watched 
with much interest by the inhabitants of the towns 
bordering on the lake. 
Prof. Edwin DeMeritt has some thirty 
youngsters at his summer school camp at Asquam 
Lake, Holderness. Mr. Raymond Collins, son of 
the late Capt. Collins, who is the clerk of the 
fish and game commission, tells me he enjoyed 
his two weeks’ vacation at Holderness very 
much and had good sport with black bass. The 
taking of brook trout in the three northern 
counties of New Hampshire is permitted through 
August and in the lakes and ponds of those 
counties until Sept. 15. Trout may also be taken 
in Lake Sunapee, Sullivan county, through 
August. In other waters of the State the sea¬ 
son closed July 31. 
Mr. C. H. French, and two friends from Bos¬ 
ton, took sixty-nine trout of which twelve were 
rainbows, two of them weighing 2)4 pounds each, 
from Baker’s River above Warren one day this 
week. Dr. G. H. Bowles, of Boston, with M. A. 
■ Batchelder, of Plymouth, took sixty-four, one of 
which exceeded ten inches in length. Another 
Plymouth angler took seven from the Pemigi- 
wasset River that weighed collectively six pounds. 
Streams in Warren gave up seventy-four to Mr. 
James Batchelder, of Plymouth. At the Range- 
leys it is reported the fishing is exceptionally 
good for the season, and there are so many 
new arrivals as to make it difficult for hotels and 
camps to accommodate all. Mr. Fred B. Comee, 
of Boston, has at his cottage. “Rouge-et-Noir,” 
his friend George H. Ellis. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. 
Fisher, of North Attleboro, are at Bald Mountain 
Camps. One Bostonian, at Chase Pond, is re¬ 
ported to have brought to gaff a salmon that 
weighed i 8)4 pounds. Central. 
Pennsylvania Angling Notes. 
Sayre, Pa., Aug. 13.—Trout fishing has been 
below the standard of former years, and locally 
apparently small interest has been manifested 
in this department of angling. As a matter 
of fact, the old-time trout fishermen have re¬ 
mained at home for the most part during the 
past season, content with their reminiscences 
and lamenting, the while, the decline of a 
glorious sport. All this apathy is due to a lack 
of active interest in stocking the streams, for it 
remains true that one cannot kill the fowl that 
lays the golden egg and expect fortune to smile 
upon him. 
However, what local anglers have lacked in 
the trout supply is more than made good by the 
Susquehanna River fishing. And it is a part of 
river history to say, that for the past two weeks 
the black and yellow bass fishing has been the 
best known along the Susquehanna in a decade. 
Practically every one who has gone on the 
river, experienced or inexperienced, has suc¬ 
ceeded in getting fish. The black bass taken 
have averaged excellent size, and yesterday sev¬ 
eral anglers from Sayre and Athens landed bass 
of 2)4 to 2)4 pounds weight. Yellow bass, or, 
more properly, pike-perch, have likewise run 
large in size during the past fortnight, and many 
fine catches of these good fish are reported. 
The favorite method is trolling, frogs and 
lampreys being the best bait, with minnows like¬ 
wise in order. Anywhere along the river from 
the State line down to Wyalusing one may find 
enough excellent bass fishing to satisfy the 
most exacting. Favorite outfitting points, of 
course, are Sayre, Athens, Ulster, Towanda, 
Wysox, Standing Stone, Rummerfield and 
Wyalusing, the latter point having acquired 
prestige in years remote that has remained un¬ 
diminished, even into these later times. 
Doubtless at any of the points named, reached 
directly on the main line of the Lehigh Valley 
Railroad, the visitor could basket a nice lot of 
bass in a day’s outing, with the proper outfit. 
Houseboats and river craft of almost every 
conceivable type are now traversing the upper 
waters of the river, and taken all together, the 
anglers and river loungers are enjoying them¬ 
selves immensely. M. Chill. 
Kalamazoo Tournament. 
At the Kalamazoo (Mich.) bait and fly-cast¬ 
ing tournament, Aug. 3 and 4, a large number of 
contestants competed, and several records were 
broken. 
The first event, accuracy and delicacy fly¬ 
casting, was won by Fred N. Peet, of Chicago. 
Delicacy and accuracy bait-casting (/4oz. 
weights) won by Wm. Stanley, of Chicago. 
Distance and accuracy won by Reuben 
Leonard. 
Long distance fly-casting won by Reuben 
Lenoard first, and E. J. Mills second. 
In salmon casting (for a record), Mills won 
with 139 feet (with 18ft. rod); Leonard, second, 
with 127 feet (with 16ft. rod). The wind was 
responsible for record scoring. The American 
record is 143 feet, the English record 150 feet. 
Distance and accuracy bait-casting ()4oz. 
weights) won by E. R. Owens, captain of the 
Kalamazoo Club, with 98.10 per cent.; Wm. 
Stanley, second, with 98.07 per cent.; O. J. 
Loomis, third, with 98.01; G. A. Hinterleitner 
scored 97.14; H. Wheeler Perce, 97.13, and Fred 
Peet, 97.09. 
The closing event of the tourney was the long¬ 
distance half-ounce bait cast, which was won by 
Abe Rabbers, of Chicago, with a record of 182 
feet 10 inches. R. C. Leonard, of New York, 
won second place with a cast of 167 feet. E. 
R. Letterman, of Chicago,, cast 147 feet and 
won sixth. O. J. Loomis and O. H. Becher, 
of Chicago, both won eighth and tenth places 
respectively. The committee in charge of 
awards will, during the next few days, determine 
the winner of the all-around championship in 
the fly-casting events. This honor will likely 
go to R. C. Leonard, who won first in the ac¬ 
curacy and distance fly casts. 
Our detailed report of the tournament has 
been delayed in the mails. 
