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poacher’s position that it was illegal. The “Commercial 
Fishermen” are in the market for laws benefitting their 
business, and against all laws restricting it. Their 
money gives them the aid of the purchasable lobby, the 
chance to ascertain and even occasionally to manufacture 
so-called ‘“‘scientific opinion”; it purchases the skill of 
excellent counsel and possibly the rural part of the 
Legislature. Precisely the influence which makes good 
laws increasingly necessary, also makes it increasingly 
difficult to secure them. 
As important and indeed necessary means to getting 
the legislation they want, the “‘Commercial Fishermen” 
are firmly and constantly using, with great perseverance 
and judgment, two important aids to any work: (1) 
Education ; (2) Organization. 
(1) The poacher never attempted to educate the 
public to his view of the situation. But the ‘“‘Commercial 
Fishermen” appreciate that in a country where public 
opinion governs, the ultimate conditions of fish preser- 
vation will be determined by the general feeling of the 
people. A “Campaign of Education,” therefore, is an 
essential part of the system. © Listen, gentlemen 
moment, and you can hear the din of the work as it 
daily progresses. Every vehicle for reaching the public 
ear is carefully utilized. The press, the platform, the 
magazine, official, semi-official and private publications, 
are made\the “cover for reaching the people, . ake 
burden is always the same. The ‘‘theories” of fish 
preservers are computed by the so-called “facts” of the 
fishermen. Scientific statements, like those of Huxley 
and others, violently wrenched from their connection, 
and all necessary qualifications are forced to masquerade 
in novel and incongruous company to support proposi- 
tions they really antagonize. Misleading and frequently 
false ‘‘statisties,” “averages,” ete, serve:(to sive rem 
apparently scientific flavor to the whole. That fish are 
not decreasing and indeed are indestructible; that every 
