366 Fisnmxc is AMERICAN WATERS. 
tecting fisheries by laws, and increasing the numbers of fishes 
by aqua-culture and fish-culture, are due to the efforts put 
forth by sportsmen’s clubs, scattered throughout the United 
States as offshoots from the parent New York Sportsmen’s 
Club. Too much praise can not be awarded those benevo- 
lent institutions, united solely for the public good, for which 
they shun no duty through fear of the poacher’s hatred or 
the malevolence of dealers in stolen goods. The poacher 
both hates and fears them, while they are the principal reli- 
ance for guaranteeing the public that the laws for the pro- 
tection of fish and game will be sustained. 
Ifthe national and state governments will unite in stock- 
ing and protecting the fresh waters, they will soon arrive at 
truths sufficiently luminous from which to form data for laws 
adequate to govern the whole question. Te the ignorance 
of legislators ay henceforth be attributed the lack of suit- 
able laws for the protection and stocking of water-farms of 
millions of acres, which might be rendered a means of recre- 
ation for the improvement of health, while offering cheap and 
luxurious food to the million. 
CurrLeE-FIsH.— Sepia officinalis, 
