The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-15
BACK THOSE FISH
 NOT NEEDED
Writers Ford and MatBaIn Sound Warning 10
 Anglers of Alaska

When you've used your fishing rod with enough success to secure as much fish as you honestly need or can immediately use, then start releasing fish and you'll ensure AL aska's remaining fisherman's paradise.
 That's the creed that writers anglers Corey Ford and Alastair MacBain keep hoping" Alaskans will adopt.
 laord and MacBain returned yes- terday from several weeks of travel through the Interior and Westward country, doing an Alaska defenses assignment for Golfers, and like the good strategists they always are when it comes to Alaska fishing, managed to do considerable re- search work on the banks of the Northlands trout and grayling streams.
 A lot of people who have fished as much as Ford and MacBain eff there are "lots') would be blase about even AlaSka's lakes and streams, but these two annual vis- itors to the Territory can get just as excited over a new fly, a new fish or new stream as freshman girl over her first football playing date but this matter of destroy ing more fish than one can use has them stirred up plenty"
 Either Ford or MacBain, an d frequently the two of them at the same time, will recite to you the parable of the Vests vanishing buffalo herds and then toss you a handful of verbal pictures as to where Alaska's fishing might be headed.
 Their proposition is this: Given, that Alaska has the grandest fish, ing in the world-the biggest rain- bow trout, the most cutthroat trout, and the only lakes and streams on earth which still teem with the elsewhere nearly extinct Arctic grayling
 And result, nobody seems to worry about how long those fish will last-a visiting couple fishes the Newhalen River and throw over 1000 rainbow trout on the bank to rot-resident sport" fishermen fill creels with grayling or trout and then fill the backs of coats and handy forked sticks until the sun goes down.
 You can't keep it up" Ford de- clares. You've got rainbow trout worth $5G apiece, as nearly as you can figure it out, to a visiting angler-fIlty big dollars spent in the Territory, and yet, along with the Dolly Warden, you pay bounty on rainbow trout tails, you feed them to the dogs or you just let them rot on the bank"
 MacBain will interrupt to tell how he and Ford fished stream that comes into Lake Clark on the Alaska Peninsula and caught gray ling up to 20 inches long as fast as a fly could be tossed on the riffles-a few being kept for din- her, and the rest released harm lessly.
 In the Russian River where trout regulations have just gone into ef- feet, possibly too late to repair a few years damage, Ford and Mac Bain caught wonderful rainbow trout.
 They went to the NeWhalen River between Lake Clark and Lake 1li- anna and caught more beautiful rainbow trout, lake trout, sockeye salmon and battling Dolly Warden.
 They followed the Kvichak River to Bristol Bay and caught more rainbows, as they did in the Nak- nek River and in the Wood River Lakes country behind the Snag Point section.
 People in the East don't believe us when we talk Alaska fish, Ford grins. Their fishing is something of the past And yet in Anchorage, when we suggested few pounds