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used by fish to spawn—streams that 
run into the sea. Herring and other 
small fish that used to go up these 
streams to spawn now have to go else- 
where—and so the larger fish which 
feed on them go elsewhere also. Pollu- 
tion first came from the mills and 
other commercial plants—sawdust alone 
is bad enough, then dyes and oil. 
2. Dams, which prevent fish from 
going up to spawn even where no pol- 
lution exists. 
3. Nets. 
Bottom gill-nets have ruined the cod 
fishing. Old fish used to avoid hooks, 
the old “breeders”? learned to slap a 
baited hook with their tails to see if it 
were safe (any old fisherman will tell 
you that). But they cannot see a net. 
Seines and Pound Nets cleaned out 
the mackerel—nothing else. 
Fish come back where they have been 
bred. It has been proved. In Norway 
when they caught up all the salmon 
with nets in one fiord, the salmon would 
still be in the next one, but would not 
come into the fished out place. 
Read Prof. Baird’s report to the Fish 
Commission (Vol. 1 and 2 of Reports of 
U. S. Fish Commission, 1870 to 1872). 
The present commission does _ not 
agree with this. I believe this to be 
due, not to a lack of sincerity on the 
part of the Commission, but they are 
not fishermen in the sense that they 
have had to study conditions at first 
hand because their lives depended on 
it. So, they have had to depend on tes- 
timony of others to a great extent. 
The manager of one of the largest fish 
companies himself admitted to me the 
nets cleaned up the fish; but when the 
fishermen who were against the whole- 
sale use of nets took the matter into 
court, the big Companies simply hired 
clever lawyers who primed witnesses— 
ostensibly experts, Captains of fishing 
vessels—who testified nets were a 
benefit because they caught the big fish 
and so saved the small ones (which— 
it was to be inferred—escaped!) from 
being eaten! 
So the real “Old Time” Fisherman— 
who knew fish, but not law courts—and 
could only say one thing, in one way— 
lost out. 
As for the gulls, they have been on 
the coast for centuries. They may take 
some fish. I don’t know how many; 
there are lots of gulls here, and they 
seem to eat mostly crabs and bits of 
garbage. But there was plenty of fish 
for everybody until the nets came. 
Men who profit by the use of nets 
naturally are not going to see any 
blame take that direction. 
I have seen, off Swampscott (4 miles 
from Marblehead) mackerel as far as 
the eye could reach as plentiful as the 
buffalo used to be. 
You know what got the buffalo. 
It will identify you. 
Pound Nets got the mackerel. 
It is the history of Peru, over again. 
How far are we going to let it go? 
We shan’t stop it by shooting gulls, one 
of the most beautiful of God’s crea- 
tures. 
Allow me in closing, to call attention 
to the United Anglers League—World 
Building, New York City. 
I suggest you get in touch with them 
and find what good work they are do- 
ing and aim to do. 
They have already, after a long, hard 
fight for several years, succeeded in 
having a law passed to stop netting in 
the breeding grounds adjacent to New 
York, out to the entrance gate—Debs 
Inlet. 
Back ’em up, boys, and get the fish 
back. 
CONVERSE CLEVELAND, 
Asbury Park, N. J. 

An Albino Deer 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
HAVE been a subscriber to your 
very interesting magazine for the 
past year and look forward each month 
for the next issue. 
I had the good luck last October to 
shoot a very rare specimen of a deer, 
as he was pure white, with the excep- 
tion of a strip of brown in his face. I 
am enclosing a snapshot of this deer 
which was taken in front of our camp 
at Molunkus, Me., and the picture also 
shows my wife holding a brace of birds, 
as well as myself with rifle. 
D. G. HopGKINs, 
Rockland, Me. © 
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