Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, Volumes 33-35

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American Fisheries Society, 1904
Report of the special meeting held at the Centennial exhibition. Philadelphia, Oct. 6, 1876, is included in Transactions of 6th annual meeting.
 

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Page 20 - Idleman moved that the rules be suspended and that the Secretary be instructed to cast the unanimous ballot of the Association for Mr.
Page 34 - I move that the rules be suspended and that the secretary be instructed to cast the unanimous ballot of this association for Walter E.
Page 83 - ... Gulf of Mexico or Straits of Florida: Provided, That sponges taken or gathered by such process between October first and May first of each year in a greater depth of water than fifty feet shall not be subject to the provisions of this Act: And provided further, That no sponges taken from said waters shall be landed, delivered, cured, or offered for sale at any port or place in the United States of a smaller size than four inches in diameter.
Page 152 - KIFC for 1899-1900-1901.) In 1898 Dr. HC Bumpus commenced a systematic re-investigation of the whole problem. Experiments were carried on in 1898 and 1899 at Woods Holl, and in 1900 some of them were transferred to the house-boat laboratory of the Rhode Island Fish Commission at Wickford. Up to this time a great many devices for enclosing the fry were tried, and proved to be impracticable, and the one which finally promised the best results was a scrim bag, suspended in the water so that the movements...
Page 242 - Any person shall, upon a two-thirds vote, and the payment of $15.00, become a life member of this Society, and shall thereafter be exempt from all annual dues.
Page 91 - ... the Nameless River. Not that trout will cease to be. They will be hatched by machinery and raised in ponds and fattened on chopped liver, and grow flabby and lose their spots.
Page 274 - To promote the cause of fish culture ; to gather and diffuse information bearing upon its practical success, and upon all matters relating to fisheries ; to unite and encourage all interests of fish culture and fisheries; to treat all questions of a scientific and economic character regarding fish.
Page 14 - Resolved, That the Secretary be instructed to send a copy of these resolutions to the President of the United States...
Page 91 - Gross feeding and easy pond life enervate and deprave him. The trout that the children will know only by legend is the gold-sprinkled, living arrow of the white water; able to zigzag up the cataract, able to loiter in the rapids; whose dainty meat is the glancing butterfly.
Page 210 - Reporting this conference, Hon. CD Joslyn wrote as follows: "The result of the meeting was that we did agree upon several recommendations to be made to the respective legislatures of the States represented. But the sad sequel of it all is that no two of the legislatures agreed to or followed these recommendations. Some States followed some part of them, other States followed some other part, but there was no uniformity and no unanimity. So that we are just where we started — nothing accomplished.

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