Report Of The State Commissioners Of Fisheries For The Year 1887 1888 1887 1888 PDF Download

Excerpt from Report of the State Commissioners of Fisheries: For the Year 1898 We have viewed with much concern the rapid absorption of well known fishing waters by private associations and their closing to the public. Twenty-five years ago, for instance, nearly every trout stream in Pike county was free to anyone. To-day public waters are scarce. Almost all the best known streams are now owned or leased by parties who do not allow outsiders to fish without a special permit; Much the same conditions prevail in other counties and every year other streams are taken out of the free list and added to the closed waters. Naturally this state of affairs is very unsatisfactory to the city angler who is not fortunate enough to belong to one of these clubs or organizations owning or controlling a stream, and is equally or more unsatisfactory to the resident in the neighborhood of closed waters. It goes without saying that we are helpless in the matter and before the last sessions Legislature we showed our disapproval of the closed stream system by advocating the passage of a section of an act making it punishable for any person to apply for or to be concerned in applying for any trout to be planted in such waters, from the State's supply. 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.