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Oct. 19, 1907.] 
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International Fishery Congress, 1908. 
Tue fourth international fishery congress will 
convene in the city of Washington, United States 
of America, in accordance with the decision of 
the Third International Fishery Congress held 
in Vienna in 1905. The meeting, which will be 
iinder the auspices of the United States Bureau 
of Fisheries and the American Fisheries Society, 
will extend from the 22d to the 26th of Sep- 
tember, 1908. 
All persons interested in the fisheries, fish cul- 
ture, fishery administration, or other matters 
within the scope of the congress are invited to 
attend the meeting and participate in the pro- 
ceedings. National, State and provincial govern- 
ments, societies, associations, clubs and other 
bodies are requested to nominate and to send 
delegates. 
Persons who expect to attend the congress or 
to submit papers are asked to communicate with 
the secretary-general as soon as practicable, and 
the secretaries of institutions and organizations 
interested in the work of the congress are re- 
quested to register their official designation and 
address so that they may receive further an- 
nouncement, programmes, invitations, etc. 
The congress will deliberate on all important 
affairs concerning fishing and fish culture, and 
will submit propositions and memorials to gov- 
ernments and to provincial and local authorities. 
The membership of the congress will consist 
of Government, State and provincial represen- 
tatives; delegates from home and foreign so- 
cieties, corporations and personages invited by 
the management of the congress, and persons at 
home and abroad who are deemed to have an 
interest in the purposes of the congress and ex- 
press a wish to take part in it. 
All the members of the congress have the 
right to vote, to participate in the discussions, 
and to make independent propositions. In case 
a corporation should be represented by several 
delegates the members of this delegation have 
the right to only one vote, which shall be cast 
by the delegate designated to the presiding 
officer. The delivery of the card of admission 
gives to members the right to take part in all 
the enterprises and excursions projected by the 
congress, to receive all the publications, and to 
wear the insignia of the congress. The members 
of the congress are required to conform to its 
regulations and decisions. 
_ The congress will follow officially the preced- 
ing international fishery congresses, and will con- 
form to the decisions for the regulation of the 
international fishery congresses decreed at Paris 
in 1900. The president and the secretary-general 
of the congress are nominated by the United 
States Bureau of Fisheries; the vice-presidents 
i elected by the congress from among its mem- 
ers. 
All the resolutions of the congress are adopted 
by an absolute majority of the members present 
having the right to vote (see Sec. 3). In case 
of division the president’s vote will decide. Elec- 
tions take place by ballot. Formal propositions 
and resolutions intended for the consideration of 
the congress should be in the hands of the local 
committee by Aug. 1, 1908. The committee will 
decide on the admission of such propositions, but 
in case of rejection it is required to make known 
to the congress the reasons therefor. 
The resources of the congress consist of a 
special appropriation by the congress of the 
United States, of voluntary contributions from 
interested persons, and of membership fees fixed 
at two dollars for each person. In the case of 
official representatives of governments the mem- 
bership fee is remitted. 
All the debates of the congress take place in 
full assembly. The official language is English, 
but in presenting papers and in debates members 
have the right to use also the French, German 
or Italian language. 
The meetings will be presided over by the 
president or vice-president, who will conduct the 
debates according to the established order. The 
president, on yielding the chair, may himself take 
part_in the debates. The duration of the dis- 
cussion of a subject will be regulated by the 
extent of the programme and will be communi- 
cated to the assembly before the commencement 
of the debate. Members desiring to speak will 
mscribe their names and subjects during or after 
the reading of papers, and the president will call 
on them to speak in the order of their inscrip- 
tion. 
A member may speak only twice on the same 
subject in the same meeting, personal remarks 
and corrections excepted. The motion for the 
close of a debate must immediately be put to 
a vote: this motion once accepted, only the mem- 
bers who have previously asked recognition can 
speak. The author of a proposition or paper 
shall at the end of the debate be recognized for 
a final resumé. 
Minutes will be prepared on all the proceed- 
ings of the congress which will contain the re- 
ports and debates in brief and in extenso. The 
full transactions of the congress will be pub- 
lished as soon as practicable after the final ad- 
journment. 
The local committee of organization will make 
such further regulations as may be necessary for 
the proper conduct of the work of the congress. 
Among the subjects that are likely to come 
before the congress are the following: 
1, Commercial Fisheries: She 
(a) Apparatus and methods of fishing. 
(b) Vessels and boats ; 
(c) Handling, preparing and preserving the catch, 
(d) Utilization of neglected and waste products. 
Matters Affecting the Fishermen and the Fishing 
Population: 
(ay Hygiene of vessels and houses of fishermen. 
(b) Diseases of fishermen and their families. 
(c) Means for preventing loss of life at sea. 
(e) Fishery schools. 
(d) Technical education in fishing, fish handiing, 
and fishculture. ; 
Legislation and Regulation Relative To: 
(a) Fishing 
(b) Fishculture. 
(c) Pollution of waters. 
(d) Obstruction of waters. ' 
International Matters Affecting the Fisheries: 
(a) Regulation and legislation. 
(b) Research. 
(c) Statistics. 
Aquiculture: 
(a) Fresh-water fishes. 
(b) Salt-water fishes. 
(c) Frogs, turtles and. terrapins. 
(d) Oysters and other mollusks. 
(e) Lobsters, crabs, crayfish and 
taceans. 
(f) .Sponges. 
(g) Alge and other plants. 
(h) New appliances and methods. 
4) Utility of fishculture in the ocean and in 
large inland waters. 
¢. Acclimatization: 
(a) American fishes abroad. 
(b) Foreign fishes in America. 
(c) Introduction of other foreign species. 
Fish Ways and Fish Ladders: 
8. Biological Investigation of the and 
Inhabitants: 
(a) Methods and appliances. 
(b) Results. 
9. Diseases and Parasites of Fishes, Crustaceans, Mol- 
lusks, and other Water Animals: 
10. Angling and Sport Fishing. . 
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In connection with the congress there have 
been arranged the following competitive awards 
for the best or most important investigations, 
discoveries, inventions, etc., relative to fisheries, 
aquiculture, ichthyology, fish pathology and re- 
lated subjects during the years 1906, 1907 and 
1908. The awards will be in the form of money 
and aggregate $2,200; and although the indi- 
vidual amounts are not large it is hoped that 
the conferring of the awards by so representa- 
tive a body as the International Fishery Con- 
gress will induce many persons to compete and 
will result in much benefit to the fisheries and 
fish culture. 
By the American Fisheries Society: For a paper em- 
bodying the most important original observations and 
mvestigations regarding the cause, treatment, and pre- 
vention of a disease affecting a species of fish under 
cultivation, $100 in gold. 
By the American Museum of Natural History, New 
York city: For an original paper describing and illus- 
trating by specimens the best inethod of preparing fishes 
for museum ard exhibition purposes, $100 in gold. 
By Forrest AND STREAM: For the best paper giving 
description, history and methcds of administration of a 
water or waters, stocked and prescrved as a commercial 
euterprise, in which angling is open to the public on 
payment of a fec, $50 in gold. 
By the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 
Sciences: For the best paper setting forth a plan for 
an educational exhibit of fishes, the species and speci- 
mens that should be shown, the method of arrangement, 
and suggestions for making such an exhibit instructive 
and attractive, $100 in gold. 
By the New York Aquarium: For an exposition of 
the best methods of combating fungus disease in fishes 
in captivity, $150 in gold. 
By the New York Botanical Garden: For the best 
essay on any inter-relation between marine plants and 
animals, $100 in gold. 
3y the Smithsonian Institution: For the best_essay 
or ireatise on “International Regulations of the Fisher- 
ies on the High Seas, Their History, Objects and Re- 
sults,’’ $200 in gold. 
By the Fisheries Company, Philadelphia. For the best 
essay treating of the effects of fishing on the abundance 
and movements of surface swimming fishes which go in 
schcols, particularly the menhaden and similar species, 
and the influence of such fishing on the fishes which 
may prey on such species, $250 in gold. 
By the United States Bureau of Fisheries: For a re- 
port describing the most useful new and original prin- 
ciple, method, or apparatus to be employed in fishculture 
or in transporting live fishes (competition not open to 
employees of the Bureau), $200 in gold. 
By the Wolveririe Fish Company, Detroit: For the 
best plan to promote the whitefish production of the 
Great Lakes, $100 in gold. 
By Mr. Hayes Bigelow, Brattleboro, Vt.: For the 
best demonstration, based on original investigations and 
experiments of the commercial possibilities of growing 
sponges from eggs or cuttings, $100 in gold. 
By Hon. George M. Bowers, United States Commis 
sioner of Fisheries: For the best demonstration of the 
efficacy of artificial propagation as applied to marine 
fishes, $100 in gold. 
By’ Dr. H. C. Bumpus, director of the American 
Museum of Natural History: For an original and prac- 
tical method of lobster culture, $100 in gold. 
By Mr. John K. Cheyney, Tarpon Springs, Fla.: For 
the best presentation treating of the methods of the 
world’s sponge fisheries, the influence of such methods 
eon the supply of sponges, and the most effective means 
of conserving the sponge grounds, $100 in gold. 
3y Prof. Theodore Gill, honorary associate in zoology, 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington: For the best 
methods of observing the habits and recording the life 
histories of fishes, with an illustrative example, $100 in 
gold. 
3y Dr. F. M. Johnson, Boston: For the best demon 
stration of the comparative value of different kinds of 
foods for use in rearing young salmonoids, taking into 
consideration cheapness, availability, and potentiality, $150 
in gold. 
By the New York Academy of Sciences: For the 
contribution, not entered in competition for any other 
award, which shall be judged to have the greatest prac- 
tical value to the fisheries or fishculture, $100 in gold. 
By Messrs. Henry Holt & Co., New York city: For 
the best series of photographs, with brief descriptions, 
illustrating the capture of food or game fishes, $100 in 
gold, 

The conditions governing these competitions 
are as follows: 
(1) Any person, association or company may 
compete for any of the awards. 
(2) Each competitor shall, before July 15, 
1908, notify the general secretary of the congress 
as to the particular award for which he com- 
petes, and he shall duly qualify himself as a 
member of the congress. 
(3) Each paper or exhibit offered in com 
petition shall be in the custody of the secretary 
general on the day of opening of the congress. 
(4) Papers may be written in English, 
French, German or Italian. 
(5) Each device, apparatus, process or method 
for which an award is asked shall be represented 
by a sample, a model or an illustrated descrip- 
tion, and each shall be accompanied by a com- 
plete statement of the points for which an award 
is asked. 
(6) The congress reserves the right to pub- 
lish, prior to their publication elsewhere, any 
papers or photographs submitted in competition, 
whether or not such papers or photographs re- 
ceive awards; provided, however, that in the 
event of the congress having failed to publish 
within six months after the an author 
will be at liberty to publish when and where he 
may elect. 
Making of the awards: 
(1) The papers, appliances, exhibits, etc., sub- 
mitted in competition for awards will be ex- 
amined by an international board to be desig- 
nated by the president of the International Fish 
ery Congress. 
(2) The board will determine the competitors 
who are entitled to awards, and the decisions 
of the board will be final. 
(3) The board may call before it, in order 
to obtain additional information when desirable, 
persons who may have entered the competition 
and also other persons. 
(4) The board may, at its discretion, with- 
hold the award in any case if in its judgment 
no sufficiently worthy competition is presented, 
and it may divide an award if there are two 
competitions that it deems of equal merit. 
(5) The board will make its report to the 
congress not later than the day preceding final 
adjournment. 
(6) The awards will be announced at a ses- 
sion of the congress, and each award will be ac- 
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