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A quatic Plants in Relation to Game Fish 
By WILLIAM O. COON, Naturalist 
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. 
The number of game fish that can live in any body of water is 
dependent upon the nature of the living conditions that exist 
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within those waters. Also the size of those 
game fish is governed by those water con- 
ditions, 
Aquatic plant life in a body of water is 
equally as important to fish life as the vege- 
tation that grows upon the upland is to the 
animal life that lives in the woods or fields. 
The basis of all food for every living 
creature is plant life. From the human be- 
ing to the lowest form of animal life are 
dependent upon vegetation for their exist- 
ence. Even though one species is carnivor- 
ous and may feed upon another carnivorous 
creature, somewhere down the line there are 
those that are dependent upon vegetation. 
Game fish within most lakes are im- 
prisoned within those waters. It is the plant 
life that grows within those waters that 
create the proper balance for their living 
condition. The advantages of that vegeta- 
tion are many, A sportsman may curse and 
condemn the weeds—that entangle his fish 
line or snag his lure, but without those 
weeds the fish cannot grow to a healthy pan 
size for eating or give that sportsman the 
thrill he gets in catching him. 
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