NECESSITY OF AQUATIC VEGETATION 
FOR FISH 
Many of the plants which are important food 
plants for waterfowl are also important food and 
cover plants for fish. Therefore, one will improve 
both hunting and fishing by establishing a growth 
of aquatic vegetation in their waters. 
Plant life takes a very important part in the 
purification of waters by taking up the poison¬ 
ous gases and sending forth oxygen into the 
waters which is essential to fish life. These 
plants also support countless numbers of minute 
animal life upon which the young fry feed. They 
also provide excellent shelter and hiding places 
for younger fish to hide and escape the larger 
ones which are of a cannibalistic nature, feeding 
upon one another, many more grow to maturity. 
Aquatic vegetation assists in the clarification 
of the waters and shades the under waters keep¬ 
ing them cool which is very helpful and health¬ 
ful to the fish life. 
In order that there be a plentiful supply of 
fish in any waters it is first necessary to protect 
the small fry. They cannot feed upon the larger 
insect life or upon one another as the larger fish 
do and as a result in waters barren of aquatic 
plants, millions and millions of the fry perish. 
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