10 HOME FISHING AND HOME WATERS. 



The motive is in every way most worthy. The end 

 is for the interest alike of the professional fisherman, 

 the consumer and the sportsman. A humane con- 

 sideration for the fish at a critical period of their ex- 

 jstence has inspired these laws, and the people at 

 large take a deep concern in their enforcement. 

 The mere " pot hunter," and the wanton aspirant for 

 a " big score," are under the ban of decent and right- 

 thinking citizens. The instinct or appetite for des- 

 truction is corrected and men are learning to 

 abandon abuses and subordinate their tastes and 

 pleasures to a beneficent and well regulated system. 



C. P. D. 



