Fish Culture in North Carolina (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: S. G. Worth
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ISBN: 9781330452035
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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Excerpt from Fish Culture in North Carolina Without laws prohibiting permanent obstructions and a wholesale destruction of the fish south of our State line, it will be necessary to discontinue the release of more fish in those streams. It would not only be foolish to pursue our operations there, but unfair and unjust. It would be a repetition of the abuses on the Connecticut river where money was expended by New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts and the shad increased seven times their former number, while the people of Connecticut on the lower waters reaped almost the entire benefits. In the laws of Virginia they will make an exception of such streams as run into our State unless we remove the obstructions. They will place no fish into streams running into this State unless obstructions to the passage of fish are removed and fish-ways or other means of crossing dams provided. So I am informed by the Fish Commissioner of that State. If proper laws are not enacted by our Legislature toward the protection of fish it will not and shall not be the fault of the Board under which I act. In my recent report to the General Assembly which received the unanimous approval and recommendation of the Board, I entered into the details and offered such recommendations as seem to embrace all the requirements to subserve the wants of the people of the State in this interest. The operations of the last two years have demonstrated the entire practicability of filling to its utmost capacity every stream in the State. One per cent, of the salmon released in this State are worth more than our entire out-lay has been, and one per cent, of the shad released at twenty-five cents apiece would bring over nine thousand dollars. From one end of this State to the other streams cover its face like a net-work, evincing the fact that the fishing interests can be made one of our greatest industries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.