March t;. 1913 
FOREST AND STREAM 
353 
The good fishing waters in Minnesota have 
brought to the State annually a great number 
of summer residents whose trail of dollars ex¬ 
pended for accommodations, boats, guides, bait, 
hotels, livery and incidentals has made the work 
of caring for these folks a profitable industry. 
The work can be extended in numerous ways, 
chief of which is the restocking of certain waters 
and the cleaning out of moss and weeds which 
hinder movement of the fish and make them 
often too easily taken. During the past four 
years the right to seine certain lakes has been 
sold by the State Game and Fish Commission 
at auction, the bidders thus obtaining the rough 
fish which they may remove from the lakes be¬ 
tween the 1st of October and the ist of the fol¬ 
lowing May. On the 7th of August, 1912, near¬ 
ly $5,000 was realized by the commission from 
such sales, some of the lakes bringing as high 
as a thousand dollars. This money goes into the 
coffers of the commission, and is drawn on to 
further its work. One lake brought $i,735 for 
the seining rights for the winter of 1912-13. 
The bidders pay the warden fee that provides 
State supervision of the work. From personal 
experience I know that the removal of rough 
fish, suckers, buffalo, carp, sheepshead, garfish, 
redhorse, etc., increases the successful spawning 
of the game fish. This winter I have never seen 
more small game fish than those we have en¬ 
couraged in the moss and weeds of the lakes 
in my district. These have all been returned 
along with the larger fish taken from time to 
time. 
SUGGESTIONS. 
There being so many angles to the work 
of game protection and preservation, it is well 
to consider all of them, especially those sug¬ 
gestions for the improvement of conditions and 
the betterment of the warden service. There 
should be a fostering of the incentive on the 
part of individuals to help game through the 
winter. Quail should be allowed trapped and 
carefully planted in likely covers when spring 
opens. Clubs should be encouraged in this and 
permitted to have a deputized warden under 
whose supervision the work might be done. 
Prairie chickens are more able to help them¬ 
selves in severe weather than are quail. Chickens 
leaving the hills of their nativity and going into 
densely settled country have to escape the gun 
of the hunter, who wants to take advantage of 
their presence, and more complete warden ser¬ 
vice only will protect them. When the law is 
enforced, this migration of chickens is highly 
preservative. To protect these birds, to see that 
quail are fed in bad weather, to have a more 
general control over the trapping season, we 
should have a salaried warden service in each 
county from the ist of September to the ist of 
May. The warden should be constantly on the 
move to perform his duties and compelled to 
own a horse for transporting himself. After 
the State begins planting game will be time 
enough for a service the year round in all sec¬ 
tions. During the summer one warden could 
care for four counties, unless the fishing for 
market industry was not too large in his terri¬ 
tory. 
It is clearly against the law for minors to 
carry firearms, yet hundreds and thousands of 
them are doing it every fall and winter. They 
keep the woods and fields about the cities and 
village scoured of every game bird and creature, 
and are often a menace to life and property. 
This law should be enforced, but cannot be 
without more complete warden service and a 
campaign of education to back it up. 
In a particular valley through which flows 
a certain river in the southern part of this State 
there are not enough fishways. Commercial in¬ 
terests have set at naught the intentions of the 
game and fish commission to keep open the 
waterway draining this valley and allowing fish 
to ascend the outlets to many lakes that flow 
into the main stream. After a rise in the river 
when the flow overtops dams and turbine races, 
and the fish can ascend into the creeks and 
lakes the fishing is noticeably better. This is 
proof enough that the fish cannot get up when 
they want to run in the spring, and that the 
fishways should be open all the year round. 
There is still further work for the game 
and fish commission to do in furthering preser¬ 
vation by sending out matter for publication 
which will help protect the birds during the 
nesting season. Every newspaper in the State 
will be glad to assist in the work. If the matter 
is neatly gotten up and placed in the hands of 
the editors, they will use it gladly. 
The State should go ahead in its encourage¬ 
ment of sportsmen’s clubs and specifically state 
what it will do to help in restocking waters, 
enemies of birds, introducing new birds and 
bettering the warden service. Clubs can be made 
a decided influence for improving all game and 
fish conditions. 
A strict reapportionment of the fees received 
from shooting and fishing licenses should be 
made to further the work in either branch. 
Fishing cranks are very jealous of the money 
they pay into the general fund and want it used 
to better the fishing waters, and likewise the 
shooters who see a portion of their fees go into 
the distribution of trout, bass, pike and croppie 
fry, and loudly wail thereat, is evidence enough 
that a true apportionment should be made. It 
seems to be only a matter of time before the 
game and fish of this State will be looked after 
scientifically, and the will to do and undo will 
be wrested from the hands of politicians that 
clamor at the board of commissioners for action 
that suits their fancy. 
Sportsmen’s clubs are at their own expense 
restocking waters, planting rice and celery, rid¬ 
ding waters of weeds and moss that are so thick 
as to hinder the movement and spawning of 
fish, prosecuting law breakers and going for¬ 
ward with the work. They should be given 
every assistance where it is possible and fea¬ 
sible. 
At least once a year the wardens of this 
State should meet to discuss problems to be 
solved for the bettering of the service, and such 
meeting should take the form of a schooling 
where the ablest teachers might help. Some 
men are not patterned for the service. These 
should be weeded out. Those who like the work 
and are faithful s*hould be encouraged and 
schooled for the every day work as well as 
the educational branch that includes publicity 
of the law and tact in its enforcement. What 
improvement the game conditions have made in 
Minnesota during recent years is generally 
traceable to this source, and what the future 
holds in reserve will be in direct ratio to the 
energy with which this work of publicity and 
direct warden service is developed. 
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