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Importance of Aquatic 
Vegetation for Game Fish 
Many of the same plants which are important food plants for 
waterfowl are also important food and cover plants for game 
fish. Therefore, one will improve both hunting and fishing by 
establishing a growth of aquatic vegetation in that lake, pond 
or stream. 
Plant life takes a very important part in the purification of 
waters by taking up the poisonous carbon dioxide gases given 
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off by soil decomposition which asphyxiate 
fish life, and sending forth in its place the 
oxygen into the waters which is so essential 
to fish life. These plants also support 
countless numbers of minute animal life 
upon which the young fry are dependent 
for their feed. They also provide excellent 
shelter and hiding places for the younger 
fish to hide and escape the larger ones 
which are of a cannibalistic nature, feeding 
upon their smaller kin. 
Food, protection and better living con- 
ditions for the small fish mean that many 
more grow to maturity, thus more fish, 
larger fish, healthier fish and better fishing. 
Aquatic vegetation also assists in the 
clarification of the waters. It binds the 
soils and prevents turbid water, also collects 
the floating particles of sediment. It 
shades the under waters keeping them cool 
which is very helpful and healthful to the 
fish life; also provides better spawning beds. 
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 an- 
other as the larger fish do and as a result 
in waters barren of aquatic vegetation mil- 
lions of the small fish perish unbeknown to 
you. 
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