Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official self soon reminded Author Hoover to leave beatitudes and state his case, which he did with much clarity and despatch. The U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, he said, knows there are ten million U. S. fishermen. Its New Jersey reports suggest that each fisherman catches only 4.5 fish per annum. Mr. Hoover proposed an idea...
...submit that each fisherman ought to catch at least 50 fish during the season. I should like more than that myself, but that ought to be demanded as a minimum . . . provided it includes one big one for purposes of indelible memory, conversation and historic record...
...provide 500,000,000 catchable fish? There are 291 federal, state and private game-fish hatcheries, turning out an average of 1,100,000,000 infant game fish annually. But infant game fish are prey to their cannibal elders. The loss of infant salmon is 99.77%. What is needed, what Mr. Hoover and his men have proved the value of, is fish nurseries, where infants may become fingerlings. Nurseries increase the infants' survival chances to "about...
There are only 36 game-fish nurseries in the country; and Mr. Hoover's plea, as sportsman and public servant, was that more nurseries be established by clubs, by individuals, by the Izaak Walton League and by the states, to rear to maturity the millions of tiny fry which the Department of Commerce furnishes free...
...that and I believe in it. I do, however, insist that no other organized joy has values comparable to the joys of the out-of-doors. We gain less from the other forms in moral stature, in renewed purpose in life, in kindness and in all the fishing beatitudes. We gain none of the constructive rejuvenating joy that comes from return to the solemnity, the calm and inspiration, of primitive nature. The joyous rush of the brook, the contemplation of the eternal flow of the stream, the stretch of forest and mountain, all reduce our egotism, soothe our troubles...