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The fish rearing pool; at the station. The Davidson River Fish Rearing Station. Forty thousand trout will be planted in 150 miles of fishing streams this year. divided between six watersheds, resulted, after fishing areas with a limited personnel, a fishing various management practices were tried, in an schedule was planned, staggering the open days increase of approximately 300 percent in anglers for the different streams under an arrangement and in number of fish caught. After the first called "The Pisgah System.” While the system year, all hatchery fish were marked by fin clipping permitted only one watershed to be open at a before being planted. Recoveries from planting time, it was found adequate to meet the increas- made at different seasons show a five-fold in- ing intensity by spreading the fishing fairly even- crease in recovery of spring-planted legal-size ly. trout over trout of near equal size planted in the At the rearing station the large trout are kept fall. During the last year of the experiment, em- in separate pools to keep them from eating the phasis was 'placed on the stocking mainly with legal small ones. There is one pool of very large trout size trout in the spring. Success indicated that this which are kept for visitors to the station to see. rnethod is the best means of meeting increased Ranger Duncan says that there are fish in the fishing demands. Unfavorable practices, such as streams as large as those at the station, but he closing streams to fishing every other year, were says that they are too smart for the anglers. They discontinued. Because of the requirement that a might be smart, but a lot of us will be wading the complete creel census be taken over widespread streams this summer trying to outsmart them. 9
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