sary for the growth and abundance of food fishes. Plant- 

 ing of fry has been done in most states promiscuously and 

 unintelligently, the condition not being considered at all. 

 Fishes cannot increase in waters of limited area, beyond 

 their food supplying capacity. It is questionable whether 

 waters in thickly populated states can, with all the sci- 

 ence available, be made to yield satisfactory results. The 

 public can take out fishes faster than they can be matured. 

 It is easy to put them in. 



There are protected reservoirs all over the country, 

 where state commissions get young stock in abundance 

 for distribution, but the public could soon clean them 

 out if allowed to do so. 



Good angling is desirable and wholesome for the 

 people. 



We should know more about the character of waters to 

 be stocked and it need not take long to make the investi- 

 gations. 



The possibilities of small fish pond as sourcei? of food 

 for the people have received little consideration in this 

 country and the actual breeding and maturing of fishes 

 in such ponds is an art which we have yet to put in prac- 

 tice. 



While certain foreign countries have long profited by 

 the art of private fish culture, and have furnished notable 

 examples, our own facilities for this industry have been 

 neglected. It is probable that our resources in this re- 

 spect are greater than those of other countries, as the 

 United States already lays claim to the most extensive 

 fish cultural operations carried on in the world, and no- 

 where is there so large a body of professional fish cultur- 

 ists as that connected with our national and state fishery 

 commissions. 



In these times when the value of running streams for 

 water power is being widely considered, the possessors 

 of brooks, springs and small lakes should be awakened to 

 the value of their home resources for water farming. 



It is gratifying to note that trout culture, in the hands 

 of the private citizen, is making some progress in Mas- 

 sachusetts and adjacent states, and the advertisements of 

 successful trout raisers may to-day be found in American 

 journals devoted to fish and game. Trout culture, is, 

 however, a branch of the work which requires special 

 conditions, such as purity of water, comparatively low 

 temperature, the construction of buildings and artificial 

 fertilization. The possibilities for the private or com- 

 mercial culture of many other kinds of fishes, which are 



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