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of the breeding season is more or less variable on the coast, to some extent accord- 
ing to seasonal climatic conditions, a closed season sufficiently long to embrace the 
breeding season of the fish along the entire coast of each State may be prescribed 
It may be a question of preventing more or less destruction of immature smelts by 
present methods of capture. However, reduction in the amount of destruction is 
possible, perhaps by adopting a modification of the suggestion offered by Donahue; 
that is, a general law prohibiting the catching of smelts in any river, brook, tidal 
creek, cove, arm of a bay, or estuary where such places are one-half mile or less in 
width between mean high tide marks. If, then, the previously mentioned measures 
pertaining to breeding places and season are observed and enforced, the loss from this 
source will become less appreciable and great improvement of the fishery will follow. 
The fact that in spite of so many years of adversity the smelt has endured to the 
extent that it has indicates that given an even chance it can “ come back.” 
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