102 FISH-CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
his pursuit exciting. With nicest skill and judgment he “tackles” 
the subtle salmon and the wary trout, whose pluck makes the 
sport so gameful and the flesh so toothsome. 
THE GENTLE ART. 
I have had some experience in fishing. May I be pardoned if 
I refer to the fact that I have fished under the shadows of our 
Sierras in Tahoe, lake and stream; that I have followed the 
mountain rivulet Restonica in Corsica, where the waters blanch 
the bowlders into dazzling whiteness, and the associations of the 
vendetta and the Bonapartes give a ruddy tinge to the adventure; 
that I have caught the cod in the Arctic around Cape Nord, under 
the majestic light of the midnight sun; that I have angled in 
the clear running Malaren Saltsj6n, which circulates healthfully 
amid the splendid islets of stately Stockholm; that I have flecked 
the waters of the Bosphorus, in sight of the historic Euxine and 
the marble palaces and mosques of two continents; that I have 
been tossed in shallops along with the jolly fishers of the Bay 
of Biscay; that I have sauntered near the pillars of Iskanderoon 
which were erected by a grateful Mediterranean people on the 
spot where Jonah was thrown ashore by the whale; but where’er 
I wandered, whether I cast my line— 
under hanging mountains, 
Or by the fall of fountains, 
my thoughts have always bounded o’er the main to ride the 
league-long rollers on the shores of New Jersey along with my 
favorite life-savers—to see and feel “the bluefish wriggling on 
the hooks.” But, notwithstanding these widespread endeavors, 
I am not prepared to say there has been any perceptible diminu- 
tion of the quantity of fishes in the waters of our planet! 
ADVANCEMENT IN FISHING. 
Marine fishing, from small beginnings in upon the rock-bound 
coast made its way down to the Chesapeake and James river, 
where the mollusk helped to swell the gains of our ancestors of 
eight generations ago. The ventures for cod, mackerel and 
