Evening star., 1930-06-22

lot of fish" says the Average
~ Angler as President Hoover signs
H. r. TAOS before starting away
over the week end to personally
attend to retrieving a couple.
The bill authorizes the expenditure of IS ,000-
900 over q period of five years and the manner
of its spending will make good freside chatter
in the of seasons when the willow baskets are
being cuffed about in the cellar closet by the
old overshoeS.
Chronic fishermen know surprising amount
about the object of their pursuit. Even the
meekest clerk in the Office pipes up now and
then contributing a pat comment on the COM
pick biology of fresh water fishes.
If the husband approaches the aquarium with
a mean expression, he is probably about to send
for the Bureau of Fisheries bulletin gold
fish. He has been secretely storing up knowl-
edge the life habits of Emma and Ellen
while you have been decorating their habitat
with artificial grass and pretzel-like castle.
MEANTIME strong men are devoting time to
the science of agriculture in the division
of scientific inquiry under the Bureau of Fish
cries. There Is plan to utilize waste lands IN
the interior for the propagation of game hsh,
which at the same time can serve as food
crop for the aquiculturist. In other words, they
plan to produce flsh on thousands Of acres Of
land which are at the present time producing
nothing.
Two hatcheries, one dedicated to bass and one
70 trout, now used entirely for scientific ex-
perimentation in effort to develop more
efficient means for propagating game fishes.
establishment OF many new stations viii be
possible under the new appropriation. Oddly
enough, the geographical set-up for this work
seems to be encroaching upon territory pop
ularly supposed to be dedicated to other puT-
suits. Hatcheres planned, among other
States, for New Mexico Montana, Colorado,
Western Texas, Nevada. Kansas and North
Dakota.
Reel em cowboyl Well, maybe it can he
done. Sunflsh, perch, crappie and black bass
should go well with the sourdough for an early
morning breakfast a1e,d.
n HE bureau wants results, which is Why 1t
so heavily stresses the actual life expect
ancy of the fish it plants about the country
It has long been convinced OF the futility Of
planting fry, and is constantly endeavoring to
increase its facilities for the production of
fingerlings. 1t has no great respect for paper
hSh," an apt phrase coined by Frank O'Connel
chief of Nebraska Fish and Game Commission,
who heads a conservation association which
during two years planted a grand total OF 558,-
703 bass. They have bass in NebraskaI And
they real fish, not futures"
There are game fish, too, in the National
Parks, the National Forests and other public
lands, placed there without the knowledge or
intervention of the Average Angler but ear
marked for his benefit
These placements of FISH, as well as those
transported to the Government hatcheries will
be aided by the new bin-whch makes possible
among other things the use of two additional
cars. There are five now in operation.
Alabama, Colorado. Florida, Georgia Idaho
Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Montana, Ne
vada New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico,
New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio,
Pennsylvania. South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas
Virginia and Wisconsin are on this accommo-
dation route.
Individual States have quite bit TO say
about their fsh crops. Under common law
Msh and game are an economic resource when