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went into the salt. No stream will long 
survive such treatment. 
It is — for the State — killing the goose 
that lays the golden eggs. Each year, as 
the delicate beauty and gameness of this 
delicious fish become wider known, brings 
a greater number of honest fishermen 
from abroad, who come for sport, and not 
indiscriminate and senseless slaughter. 
These add to the reputation of the State, 
leave money in our borders, and advertise 
widely our fourteen hundred miles of 
water coast and 35,000 square miles of 
fish-breeding water. 
N OW what is the remedy? It is diffi- 
cult to prescribe a proper one. Some 
further legislation is needed — great- 
er powers ought to be conferred on and 
more money put at the disposal of our 
Fish Commissioners. In the case of the 
parties I refer to, a printed circular giv- 
ing rules for fishing the river, issued by 
the Commission and put in their hands, I 
am sure would have been respected. They 
were gentlemen, though thoughtless ones. 
These circulars could easily be distrib- 
uted. They would certainly be by guides 
and polers, for, however well they are 
paid, they do not care to destroy in one 
year the livelihood of three, and work 
from daylight to dark, coming in wet and 
weary, if they might avoid it. For those 
who cannot be so reached, more stringent 
laws should be enacted, with penalties 
heavy enough to tempt informers. The 
moulding of such legislation is the proper 
duty of the Fish Commission. 
Our oldest fish laws are comparatively 
recent (1865), though antedating by four 
years the game laws, proper (1869). 
These laws, however, are in some re- 
spects discordant and incomplete. They 
need codifying, enlarging and amending. 
Still the progress has been steady, and 
I desire to add here my warmest thanks 
to the Fish Commission for the zeal and 
efficiency with which they have worked 
and husbanded the pittance doled out to 
them. One has but to read the legisla- 
tion of ’73, ’75 and ’77 to note this steady 
progress in a good cause, to which your 
association has largely contributed. 
More and more attention is being given 
to the preservation and culture of fish 
by our Sister States. At least eighteen of 
them have Fish Commissioners and favor- 
ing legislation. And yet not one of them 
can approach Michigan in the magnitude 
of its undeveloped resources in this re- 
gard. Whether the grayling can become 
by culture a food fish is yet a problem. 
He is, however, the peculiar property of 
Michigan waters, and is fast growing into 
favor with the best class of our many men 
of leisure, who love the rod and fly and 
the quiet woods. And let it be remembered 
that the friends of trout and grayling — 
and their name is legion — are always 
found in the front ranks of those, who 
with money and culture and influence and 
zeal, are laboring to hold up the hands of 
our Fish Commission and educate the 
State to a proper appreciation of the 
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