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Show HOW UNCLE SAM HELPS OUR ANGLERS. There are two kinds of anglers in America, those who regard fishing as a sport and those who consider it as a means' of livelihood. Both class-' es of fishermen are given great as-j slstance each year by your Uncle Samuel through the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. Few people realize the ex-j tent of the work performed by the) United -States government to provide j fish for sport and for food. In an interesting in-teresting article in the current issue of the National Republic, under the : title "Uncle Sam and Our Anglers," Miss Lucy Salamanca says, in part: "Now is the season of the year when swelling lilac buds and yellowing yellow-ing w;llow trees instill a restlessness n the heart of man. He longs to be out and away, casting a fly in a mountain moun-tain stream or dropping his line into some shady pool. It is the season when steel rods are tried and oiled and the old fly book is carefully inspected. It is the season of 'duffle' bags and hip boots, swishing lines and singing reels. "In every .corner of the United States where a tiny brook meanders to the river or a ' wide river twists to the sea, wherever a quiet pond reflects re-flects low hanging branches, the angler or casual fisherman will try his luck throughout the spring and summer months. And Uncle Sam has seen to it that these disciples of Isaac Walton will not be disappointed. He has done his share to stock those streams with gamey trout or fighting bass and left the rest to the fair play and skill of the sportsman to follow. "Of the myriad services that our government performs in the interests of our comfort and happiness, certainly certain-ly as highly appreciated as any is I the work of . the Bureau of Fisheries of the United States. The fish cultural cultur-al activities of this government division di-vision not only further an important national industry and augument the food supply of a nation, but benefit every angler or casual fisherman who ever dropped a line in water. "Last year the Bureau of Fisheriefi attained an all-time high record for the distribution of fish and eggs from government hatcheries. An output of over six billion cod, haddock, polluck, flounder, mackerel and other food fishes proves beyond question the utility of this activity, while the 205,-000,000 205,-000,000 game fish distributed show clearly that the angler has not been neglected. "The Bureau of Fisheries has been in existence since 1872, when it was established by an act of Cngress 'for ' the purpose of making a scientific I investigation of fishes.' The work soon expanded to such an extent that it included in-cluded many different branches of activities, ac-tivities, especially the propagation of ; fishes for restocking interior streams. ' This work is now one of the bureau's most important activities and every ', year, up until the present time, ap-! ap-! proximately three-fourths of a million mil-lion dollars has been spent in salaries salar-ies and operating costs for the production pro-duction and output of fish. Fish have been planted by the bureau along the Atlantic coast, in the Great Lakes, along the Pacific coast and in the brooks and streams, rivers and ponds of inland waters." |
