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fish. To successfully accomplish these two im- 

 portant benefits for the people at large, the angler 

 should have the most vital interest in it. It is 

 the large and growing army of anglers, collected 

 together from all sections, upon whom the duty 

 lies to improve conditions. They must not stand 

 by and take things good-humoredly, for their own 

 self-interest they should start in by means of a 

 polite yet strongly worded letter to the governor 

 of the State or to the heads of Game and Con- 

 servation Commission, suggesting that the indis- 

 putable fact of breeding more food will produce 

 better results than their present methods of waste- 

 ful overstocking. If State and private hatcheries 

 are not large or suitable enough without additional 

 accommodation for such work, it can be done ef- 

 fectively by utilizing swamp waste waters to be 

 found in almost every township of the land. The 

 canals, for instance, many of them not now in use, 

 are a splendid field for planting and breeding all 

 kinds of fish food, enough indeed to satisfy all 

 needs. 



Finally, the most crying need NOW is to put 

 a full and immediate stop to the expensive waste 

 of overstocking game-fishes and replace the sur- 

 plus with fish food, so that in the near future 



