FOREST, LAKE, AND RIVER 



Protective Association, and by Commissioner Tit- 

 comb, of Vermont, to put an end to it. The 

 people of New York State and of Vermont who 

 live upon the shores of Lake Champlain, realize 

 the fact that the country about the lake is fast 

 becoming a summer resort, and that the summer 

 visitors are a class of people who want to have sport 

 when they go to the country, and are willing to pay 

 well for it. It has been found too that the wall- 

 eyed pike of the lake are excellent game fish, but 

 that they have recently been destroyed in large 

 numbers and that the time has arrived to protect 

 them. Both New York and Vermont have taken 

 action to prevent seine fishing in the lake ; but, un- 

 fortunately, a portion of the lake extends into Can- 

 ada, and in this part of it, in Missisquois Bay, the 

 pike-perch run to spawn. Notwithstanding the 

 protection attempted by the neighboring States, 

 Canadians are still licensed by their Government to 

 seine these fish in the spring of the year, while they 

 are on their way to their spawning beds in the bay. 

 The amount of this destruction is so great that it is 

 stated upon the authority of ex-Governor Fiske, of 

 Vermont, that one hundred barrels of these spawn- 

 ing fish have been shipped from the station of 

 Cambridge in a single day. One man who had a 

 license for netting fish testified that his profit in 

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