New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-12
TO SUPPRESS POUND FISHING.
PEOPLE ON THE NEw-JERsEY COAST AROUSED
TO THE EVILS OF THE PRACTICE.

THE EVILS OF THE ffACiiOI"
Ashury Park. ~ j., Dec. II (specaD.-Much IN
terest is now being taken in the efforts being mace
bv the fish protective associations along the Jer-
sey Coast to stamp out the growing evil OF Pou"o
fishing which has been. during the last three OF
four years steadily increasing to such an alarming
extent as TO threaten the annihilation or ans"hs
on the shore front a pastme for amateur Anglers
and the destruction OF an Industry that mas oeen
the only means Of livelihood known to fully 5000
LEGITIMATE fishermen. Here In this place there mas
been organized q powerful society known as the
p,sh Protective Association OF Monmouth County
II recently held a rousipg meeting In Crosby Hail.
a. which were gathered some OF the most inhue"
tial anglers and goodly number or deep-sea hshe'
men, upon whom the pound fishing mas wrought
SO much ruin. At this meeting encouraging ie''e''
were read from the Fish and Game Commissioners
=, mi, S,a,e and a Committee Of Conference was
Amounted TO meet like committees from other sea-
hoard States at a meeting that has been cahed
at the Gerlach. Broadway and Twenty-se'e"'"-S'
New-York, next Wednesday noon' 70 take oon-
certed action looking to the suppression OF tra'''c
that is causing wholesale destruction OK 1000 hsh.
Another and equally serious phase OF th's suo
Ject Is the shrnkage in the values OK noter h
ties on the coast, directly resuItant from o,,e
destruction Of edible sf Ihe mere II b apI% r
100000 Invested In hotel properties along the
sey Coast, and hundreds of thousands Oh uO.iaas
a ar hnse Shores in the pursuit of the sport OF
angling These have been steadily cropping away
of the scarcity OF game occasoned by the insatiate
greed ed OF the pound fishermen. And again as Is
well known. fish fresh from the waters OF the
ocean are much sought after by guests at Tn, the
table but owing to the manner OF their catcning
only I in the most limited quantities The reason
for this Is that pays better to ship direct TO me
biss sests he must needs send to the city pay
city prices here. which are double those paid on the
' The meshes Of these nets used by these pound
keepers knit 50 fine that every swimming thing
mar marketabe finds ready purchasers among the
many fertlizng manufacturers near the big cities
seeking niets are prevented from reaching spawn ,a
n ing ksepers erect their pounds about quarter
OF n mile off shore. running out into deep water
n sSa adTSnt of I'll these qudns
buesh from the shore was e pGp s three sea
sons it is asserted a thousand pounds per sea
son would cover the entire cater along the whole
S Sp in 0y bound smd nets Few years ago Spanish
mackerel were caught by casting In goodly mum,
Outside OF the pound nets In one haul last june
the pound owners between Long Branch and Sluan
m mack e to New-York and Philadelphia since
which time a Spanish mackerel has been unknown
hereabouts. In Barnegat Bay last summer
striped bass fishing was exceedingly good This
condition the result OF LEGISLATION at Trenton
hat Sormerly infested these waters were declared
and the drv9 Sav rS% the the
doubted property OF the State. and the Legislature
exercised us rlRnt 10 aDate the HuisduCe, as
riparian right was In question, and the lobby OF
the fishermen awaited nothing
This wanton destruction OF food fish and the conse-
ouent ruin Of an industry among people who know
no other source Of earning livelihood and the
danger that menaces hotel interests have thoroughly
| aroused the people living along the shore. and a
most determined opposition to the further encroach-
| The movement is backed by large capital and the
| earnest support OF army or enthusiastic ana
| influential anglers who are enlisted In the cause
| from pure love of the sport and legitimate fish.
Ing. The fight will be taken 10 the Legislature at
| Trenton this winter and II summary and success
full legislation Is not obtained then II Will be trans
| ferred to Washington. where the aid or congress
| will be sought