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Atlantic rivers, for salmon, shad, striped bass, yellow perch and white 



perch % 4 



Pacific rivers, for salmon and steelhead trout 5 



Great Lakes, for whitefish, cisco, lake trout, and pike-perch 4 



Interior waters, for bass, sunfish, crappie, trout, etc 18 



Atlantic coast, for cod, haddock, pollock, flounder and lobster. 3 



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It is perfectly safe to say that without this enormous 

 putting-back effort, for the perpetuation of the supply of food 

 fishes, very few food fishes would now remain in the fresh waters 

 of the United States! No wonder Congress cheerfully appro- 

 priates for the work of the Fisheries Bureau, for 1914, the sum 

 of $1,709,720. 



But is there any such movement as this on the part of 

 the Government for the preservation of our supply of game 

 birds and game quadrupeds? Emphatically, there is not. 

 The nearest approach that the National Government has 

 made to the pace set in behalf of the fishes is the preservation 

 of the bison and the preservation of the elk of the Yellowstone 

 Park, on which, all told, perhaps $200,000 have been expended 

 up to 1914. Now a third step is being taken, this time in 

 behalf of the birds of the nation. All the states are willing 

 that the National Treasury should place fishes in their waters, 

 public and private, but when the National Government at- 

 tempts to save the migratory game birds from slaughter in 

 spring, by the new migratory bird-law, the duck-hunters of 

 Kansas City raise a great outcry about the alleged "uncon- 

 stitutionality of the law," and seek to overthrow it on that 

 ground ! 



Will the American people permit even an attempt to 



