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...there are more ducks this year than in 20 years. Eight years ago droughts and free shooting had sliced the North American duck population to 30 million. Hunting laws were tightened, the Government started a huge conservation program. And Ducks Unlimited, an organization financed by alarmed sportsmen, reclaimed a million acres in northwest Canada for protected breeding areas. Result: this season there are 125 million ducks...
Henry won $25,000. The Beau, who fights for fun and a fee from a syndicate of Stork Club sportsmen who handle his winnings, got two flashy new suits, a hat and a new pair of shoes...
Last week Dogcaster Bob, who looks like a barfly but loves the Big Open Spaces, became Gamecaster Bob. On his new program, Sportsmen's Spotlight (Mutual's WGN, Tuesday, 7:15-7:30 C.W.T.), he championed a cause he himself had cooked up: a new way to tackle the meat shortage. Said he: Too many camp cooks yell: "Come and get it-or I'll throw it away." Every year, he declared, 435,000,000 lb. of fish and wild game are hooked and bagged in the U.S.-enough to feed an army...
Bambi has an all-animal cast, but man is present by implication. Disney's indictment of men who kill animals for sport is so effective that U.S. sportsmen who have seen the picture are gunning for him. They feel that Disney is undoing their lifework of conserving wild animals for future open seasons. After Bambi they may have a hard time convincing Disneyacs...
...fishermen are also hamstrung by wartime restrictions. Last year in Long Island Sound they landed more summer flounder than all commercial fishermen; in some parts of Puget Sound the private salmon catch far outweighs the industrial catch. One hitch: a fat portion of the sport catch is usually wasted; sportsmen can neither sell nor give it all away...