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Whether it be fish life, bird or animal life—there 
are but three fundamentals that concern them. First 
1s to obtain food; the second is protection from their 
natural enemies; and the third to reproduce. Let’s 
just touch on the basic facts concerning each of these. 
FOOD FOR GAME FISH 
All fishes classified as game fish are carnivorous 
creatures (meat eaters), some of them are cannibal- 
istic and feed upon the smaller of their own kind. 
Many game fishes feed upon other species of game 
fishes, rough fish and otherwise. There are certain 
species of small fishes that never grow large and 
which multiply rapidly that are known as forage fish. 
It takes an abundance of small fish to provide food 
for large numbers of larger fish, and, therefore, to 
have an abundance of small fish ‘they ‘likewise must 
have a greater abundance of food, 
These smaller species of fish are dependent for 
their food upon the microscopic animal life that lives 
in the waters. One drop of water may contain num- 
bers of small creatures visible only when placed 
under a microscope. They are not harmful to man 
or beast, but are important to those fish. This small 
animal life may, depending upon the species, be 
dependent upon the living plants that grow in those 
waters or the decaying foliage and roots of old dead 
vegetation. Perhaps this small microscopic creature 
A case where eyes are bigger than stomach. 
—Courtesy Field and Stream. 
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