Fish and Fishing 



beds present conditions would be favorable to 

 them. 



Some States are more severe than others, readily 

 recognizing the value of game fish to the State, 

 not only in the pleasure afforded to its citizens, 

 but in money spent by visitors. The State of 

 Maine, in particular, would find a difference if 

 game and fish were not abundant. Fifty thou- 

 sand people would spend the summer elsewhere. 

 It is only a closed season on fish 



cfoseVJeason and S ame that produces the supply 

 demanded. The great railroads 

 are now taking considerable interest in fish and 

 game sections along their lines, issuing elaborate 

 booklets on the subject purposely to attract 

 wielders of the rod and gun to spend vacations in 

 districts well supplied with game. Such places 

 cannot be maintained without a closed season to 

 replenish the ravages made in various ways. 



The State of New Jersey has a minor law for- 

 bidding certain fishes to be taken at night. To be 

 exact: "Fishing between 9 P.M. and daylight is 

 prohibited for trout, bass, pike, pickerel and pike 

 perch." This law may not be kept, but its moral 

 effect is good. Decent people will not intention- 

 ally break the law. Anglers as a body, that is, 

 ninety-nine out of one hundred, will consider the 



law principally made for their special 

 pishing benefit, and I find they usually act upon 



it. This night law is aimed at worm- 

 fishing for trout and by set lines in minnow fishing 

 for bass and pike; both are deadly modes, for 

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