XIV 



NOTES ON THE BREEDING AND PLANTING 



OF GAME-FISH FOOD BY PRIVATE AND 



STATE HATCHERIES 



Up to the present time fish culturists, private 

 fish breeders, anglers, and others interested in the 

 subject of this chapter have not yet even thought 

 of such a thing as to provide game-fishes with 

 proper food. Their whole energies have been to 

 breed all the game-fish possible, to dump them 

 in the waters of brooks, rivers, and lakes, then 

 let nature do the rest; forgetting the undeniable 

 truth that *' nature is not always kindly disposed." 

 The little game-fishes they let loose are very 

 young and tender, with no motherly care to pro- 

 tect them from their many enemies, their in- 



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