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protection of the fish which have to be returned to the 

 stream. I have taken the matter up with our railroad 

 officials, asking that, as they issue their printed matter 

 for the tourist season, they insert my card. All have 

 very kindly granted my request, and in this way fisher- 

 men are reached who would not be otherwise. 



The subject has been taken up with fishing clubs. 

 Some of them are printing the directions on the back of 

 their membership cards. 



I am distributing the card to visitors at the hatchery, 

 to whom I show the fish which brought forth the pub- 

 lication of the card and which I saved from death from 

 fungus by my treatment. Last season I had the card 

 printed in the form of post cards, which I have given 

 out at the hatchery as free printed matter. By this 

 means I have secured for it a still wider circulation. 



The subject has been taken up in the public schools as 

 an object of instruction, and it should be taught in the 

 schools. Why should not the coming fishermen be edu- 

 cated along the lines of fish protection? Our game laws 

 in Colorado provide that all fish taken under seven 

 inches in length shall be returned to the streams, but 

 they stop right there and give no instruction as to how 

 to handle the individual fish so that it may have an op- 

 portunity to live after betdig returned to the water. 



In order that I might know something about how 

 many people I have instructed as to the handling of the 

 undersized fish, and also to whom I have exhibited my 

 pet fish, I opened a register on the 25th of May, the be- 

 ginning of the open season for fishing, and up to the 2d 

 of September my register contained the names of 4,550 

 people. I have given out over 3,000 cards containing 

 my plea for the undersized fish, also about 2,000 post 

 cards with the same instructions. 



My register contains the names of persons from China, 

 France, Honduras, British Columbia, San Salvador, and 

 from nearly every state in the Union. While the recip- 



