vi Foreword 



There is certainly a need for organized information on fish management. 

 According to a survey recently published by the United States Fish and 

 Wildlife Service, more than twenty-five and one-quarter million Americans 

 fished in 1960. They spent about 2.7 billions of dollars in this activity. 



That the need is growing is indicated by a similar survey conducted in 

 1955, which showed that at that time there were about twenty-one million 

 fishermen who spent more than 1.9 billions of dollars. During the period 

 1955-1960 the number of fishermen in America increased by an average of 

 almost one million per year. 



Therefore the present book should have a great audience, and the facts 

 which it contains should be of importance and of value to a great many 

 people. The author has found it necessary to simplify many terms, and 

 define many things in this book, for there is no profession of sport fisher- 

 men. People with this delightful addiction may vary from those handy 

 with a shovel to those skilled with an electron microscope. They start 

 fishing when they can hardly hold a pole, and, at the other end of the age 

 span, stop only when they can again hardly hold a pole. To most of 

 these people this book should be in part or in the whole a valuable tool. 



And there will be more interested people as time goes on, for the 

 already large number of Americans who fished in 1960 is bound to increase. 



Harlow B. Mills 

 Urbana, Illinois 

 May, 1962 



