. Conservation of the natural food resources of the state of Louisiana . LMOST every one admits the necessity of lawsfor the Conservation of our Natural Resourcesin the way of Game, Fish, Oysters, Shrimpand Water Sites. It is conceded that our present lawsare not perfect, hut this Board believes that the v^ery bestof foundations were laid down by the last General Assem-bly in collaboration with your Excellency, and we trustthe work will be permitted to go on and be improved,until Louisiana shows to all the States of the Union thebest system whereby the many problems connected withthis new and
. Conservation of the natural food resources of the state of Louisiana . LMOST every one admits the necessity of lawsfor the Conservation of our Natural Resourcesin the way of Game, Fish, Oysters, Shrimpand Water Sites. It is conceded that our present lawsare not perfect, hut this Board believes that the v^ery bestof foundations were laid down by the last General Assem-bly in collaboration with your Excellency, and we trustthe work will be permitted to go on and be improved,until Louisiana shows to all the States of the Union thebest system whereby the many problems connected withthis new and almost unknown feature of our body politicare solved to the uplift of the State and her sovereign ANATOMY OF THE OYSTERFROM A MODEL IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO EQUAL AREA exists on the earth comparable to Louisiana in the productiveness of herlands or the wealth in her waters. We have over 534,700 acres of the finestoyster bottoms in this or any other country. Past General Assemblies haveenacted laws for the conservation of this resource which in the main havebeen good, but only relatively so. It was the opinion of the members ofthe various sessions of that body that it would be better to go slow and sure,rather than enact radical laws which might be antagonistic to the devel-opment of the business on safe lines. During the past year, the citizens engaged in this business maiketedapproximately eight hundred thousand barrels of oysters, of an approximatevalue of one million dollars to the fishermen. This is about the maximum pro-duction of our bottoms under the present system permitted l)y our great increase can be counted on until the General Assembly enac
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