LET US GO AFIELD 



the world. The biggest rainbows are no longer to 

 be had in California, Oregon, or Washington; you 

 must go to New Zealand for them. You can get 

 them up to twenty-five, forty, and fifty pounds in 

 New Zealand, with fine sport in bold and rushing 

 rivers which once ran fishless to the sea. In Roto- 

 rua Lake, in the Auckland country, an average of 

 four tons of rainbow trout a day has been taken in 

 season. As high as fourteen tons have been taken 

 in one day. There was not a rainbow there in 1880. 

 The problem was perfectly simple when treated on 

 a businesslike basis. Our own problem, also, is per- 

 fectly simple if we care to treat it on a business 

 basis. 



I have before me, as I write, the report of the 

 gamewarden of California. It is, in large part, a 

 record of what does not exist today but what did 

 exist ten, twenty, or thirty years ago. Yet the 

 warden of that state says, with a certain pride, that 

 the funds raised by shooting and fishing licenses in 

 that state are all applied to game protection. In 

 short, he has the same point of view we have in all 

 our states that sportsmen only are to pay for sport. 

 Yet we have established as a part of our Constitu- 

 tion, that there shall be no class legislation. Is it 

 not perfectly easy to see the conflict of terms here? 



Though it is true that market shooting ought not 

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