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Some good, edible fish seem to thrive even in water strongly 

 impregnated with alkali; more fish are found in such waters than else- 

 where, as evidenced by the fish in the ocean. 



Such streams as the Missouri, below the falls, the Yellowstone, 

 Musselshell, Little Missouri, and perhaps a number of our more central 

 and eastern rivers should prove very valuable assets in the food they 

 should be made to yield. Our population is rapidly increasing, and 

 many of our people live in places remote from our trout streams and 

 only at great expense are able to get any benefit whatever from this 

 class of fishing; but in propagating other kinds of fish, many would 

 be benefitted thereby. 



The trout and grayling appeal more to the Montana angler than 

 other fish, but in considering the greatest good to the greatest number, 

 and a just regard for all our people, it would seem that we should 

 anticipate their present and future wants by stocking all the waters 

 of the state with such species of fish as might be found suitable and 

 desirable for such waters. 



Many of our states maintain fish hatcheries wherein they raise 

 fish adapted to their respective waters. The States of New York, 

 Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont, Nebraska, are among the 

 states that not only propagate trout, but they also hatch and distribute 

 millions of pike-perch, as well as bass, blue pike, sturgeon, yellow 

 perch, catfish, whitefish, and many other fish; the State of New York 

 propagates successfully in their ten hatcheries, some twenty-nine dif- 

 ferent species of fish, including the trout and char. 



To enlarge the scope of this work would require the construction 

 of an inexpensive hatchery at some desirable point east of the Rocky 



Fishing on Lake McDonald. 



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