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would serve as further accurate source for more professional investigators 

 as well as for the laymen for whom the first pamphlet would be a temporary 

 source. Cooperation from clubs, and the formation of more angling clubs 

 would greatly aid such an enterprise. 



4. Competitive angling and publicity: Competitive angling, which is on 

 the increase all over the world, is a splendid publicity method and of great 

 help to the sport in general. It should, however, be held to the financial level 

 of an amateur sport. If too great sums of money become involved, either in 

 the expense of entering such tournaments or in prize money, it can become 

 a burden to a community and a menace to the ethics of the sport. This is 

 particularly true in North Carolina where advancement of angling as a 

 source of profit and recreation to her people depends so largely on keeping 

 the prices for all facilities involved below the level of adjacent coastal areas 

 with longer seasons and already highly developed angling facilities. 



5. Other recommendations suggested in the body of this text are: more 

 bridges and fishing piers; more marking of wrecks; improvement of some 

 of the channels and yacht basins; service stations on some of the long 

 stretches of road in sparsely inhabited sections; improvement of inland to 

 shore transportation, and the cooperation of anglers, angling clubs and 

 educational institutions in furthering angling as a recreation. 



ACKNOWI.EDGMENTS 



I am greatly indebted to the Department of Conservation and Development 

 of the State of North Carolina, without whose very material help I would 

 have been unable to visit the numerous angling grounds of the State. For 

 post-1947 information, I am most grateful to the Institute of Fisheries Re- 

 search of the University of North Carolina. 



Francesca LaMonte 



SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 



Anderson, A. W., and E. A. Power. 



1949. Fishery Statistics of the United States, 1945. U. S. Fish & Wildlife 

 Service, Statistical Digest No. 18, 1949, 372 p. (pictorial section, 



p. 355-372). 



(Statistics of all important commercial U. S. fishes, by species, regions, 

 gear, etc., numbers of fishermen, common and scientific names, etc. 

 Published annually under above title and authors from 1Q42 {No. ii), 

 and earlier {without illustrations) for many years annually as "Fish- 

 ery Industries of the United States," by various authors, as appendices 

 to the Annual Reports of the U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries.) 



