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River ; in the Adirondacks, Rangely Lakes, as well as in very many 

 lakes and rivers in the States of New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, 

 and Minnesota, catching all the game fishes in those localities. 



I have also fished in salt water along the Atlantic Coast from 

 Atlantic City to Old Orchard, Maine, trolling for Bluefish at all of 

 the most important places north to Nantucket, and still fishing all 

 along the route ; and still I say, give me the East Coast of Florida 

 from Ormond to Key West. 



I will add, too, that I have fished a little in Scotland, France, 

 Germany, Austria, and Italy, but none of their waters even deserve 

 mention as compared to the American and Canadian, salt or fresh. 



During the past few years, while on cruises down Indian River 

 from the Haulover to Jupiter, I have wondered why the residents 

 along the river have not availed themselves of the State laws to stop 

 the indiscriminate fishing done there. 



I am not writing this from a visiting angler's standpoint, but, I 

 believe, in the interest of all concerned — the angler, the resident, the 

 market fisher, and the railroad and express companies who carry the 

 fish to market. 



If the quantities of fish caught can be even temporarily curtailed 

 by the adoption of the laws in force on the Halifax and Hillsboro 

 rivers, the fish will, the first season, become more plentiful, and will 

 last as long as the laws are enforced. 



It might be a good plan to adopt the laws for a period of two or 

 three years, then open season for the same length of time, and again 

 a close season, and so on indefinitely. This plan of open and close 

 seasons was several years ago tried in the State of Maine, where they 

 have the best system of game laws, and the most rigidly enforced, of 

 any State in the Union, with the sure and natural result, that there is 

 plenty of game and fish for everybody, and the hunting and fishing 

 resorts, clubs, and hotels are full of people during the proper seasons. 

 The law should not apply to Spanish Mackerel and Bluefish, as they 

 are migratory fishes and are caught mostly outside. 



As it is now, on Indian River, Lake Worth, and the canal 

 between Lake Worth and Biscayne Bay, "the goose that lays the 

 golden egg" is certainly being killed. I venture to quote here the 

 saying attributed to a northwestern Indian, which reads: "White 

 man, heap dam fool, he kill all the deer and catch all the fish, bime 

 by he got none ; heap clam fool." 



