198 Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting. 
control, many of the eggs of the various species of trout needed 
by the hatcheries scattered throughout the country. For sev- 
eral years past Yellowstone Lake has been utilized for the suc- 
cessful collection of black-spotted trout eggs. But with proper 
direction and oversight it should be an easy matter to extend 
the work to other species. : 
All other features of this great public park are being jeal- 
ously guarded and fostered. Soldiers patrol its roadways, pro- 
tecting its game from poachers; its formations from vandals, 
and its forests from the fires of the careless campers. Civilian 
scouts perform the same duties in the outlying districts. Its 
ish alone are left mainly to shift for themselves. 
Here is a region belonging in a peculiar sense to all the 
people in which are trout waters of greater extent and value 
than those of many of the states, and yet its fishing interests 
are left entirely without skilled oversight. It has always seemed 
to the writer since he became familiar with these facts, that the 
National Bureau of Fisheries should have a representative in 
the Park that these interests may receive the same intelligent 
oversight and direction given such interests in the various 
states or the other interests of the Park. This seems the more 
important since its administration is in the hands of army offi- 
cers, men of the highest ability and integrity but subject to fre- 
quent change, and in the very nature of thinzs possessing no 
knowledge of fish-cultural matters. Hence there is constant 
danger that wrong plants may be made and the plan of keeping 
the various species separate ruined beyond remedy. 
Under the directions of a superintendent of fisheries the fish- 
ing in many waters may be improved, fish may be planted in 
other waters still barren and the Park made in all truth the 
Great National Fishing Resort. 
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