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the gain to be derived from stocking neglected pieces 

 of water. The public wants to know what each pond, 

 lake, or mile of stream should yield to the rod 

 annually, and what species, kind, and description of 

 fish will give the best sport.' 



Later still, we have the weighty and disinterested 

 testimony of Mr. Frederick M. Halford, by whom the 

 idea that the natural reproduction alone in a river 

 much fished is sufficient to keep up the stock, is 

 ridiculed as ' an exploded theory ' capable of being 

 held only by such as would remain unimpressed by 

 'any amount of argument, or careful statistics of figures, 

 or examples of the great benefit accruing to various 

 fisheries from systematic stocking.' 1 



1 Making a Fishery (1895). 



