fly flinger
01-28-2011, 02:10 PM
Change "mullet" to "menhaden", "tarpon" to "striped bass" and "Ft. Meyers to Chesapeake Bay"
“I cannot believe that you people would sit with folded arms and allow the fish to be netted out of existence” Thomas Edison, Fort Meyers Press April 11, 1916
“The capture of its principal food, the mullet, by net fishermen all along its range in the semi-tropic seas, will surely have a serious effect upon its future welfare and numbers. Many other fish love to feed upon the mullet and their netting during the spawning season should be stopped both in the interest of sport and also to conserve the rapidly decreasing schools of mullet, a very important food fish for the South” Louis L. Babcock, The Tarpon, 1921
CONVERSATION WITH THOMAS EDISON 1916
“Good morning Mr. Edison. Hope you’re having a good time.”
“Nit”
“Why, What’s the matter? Weather is fine and –
“Yes, that’s all right – but where are the fish?”
“Say, I remember the time when tarpon were caught opposite my home and there’s nothing like that now. The tarpon have disappeared: you hardly ever hear of one being caught in the Bay. You know why? The answer is not an arbitrary one; it is just this. The wholesale destruction of the mullet and small fish which formerly abounded in the bay is the cause. Do you catch on? The small fish you see were nature’s food for the tarpon. When the mullet and small fish were plentiful and ran in the bay it was feeding ground and like it was then it will be again if you stop the netting.”
“The tarpon has put Fort Meyers on the map as a fishing resort with biggest sportsmen in the country. Lee County has become famous, but it’s being ruined by these nets and the extermination of the fish by a bunch of men for commercial purposes.”
“You can take my word for it that fishing is the attraction and an incentive for more tourists coming to Lee County than any other game or sport now here, or that might be introduced.”
Thomas A. Edison, Fort Meyers Press, April 11, 1916
“I cannot believe that you people would sit with folded arms and allow the fish to be netted out of existence” Thomas Edison, Fort Meyers Press April 11, 1916
“The capture of its principal food, the mullet, by net fishermen all along its range in the semi-tropic seas, will surely have a serious effect upon its future welfare and numbers. Many other fish love to feed upon the mullet and their netting during the spawning season should be stopped both in the interest of sport and also to conserve the rapidly decreasing schools of mullet, a very important food fish for the South” Louis L. Babcock, The Tarpon, 1921
CONVERSATION WITH THOMAS EDISON 1916
“Good morning Mr. Edison. Hope you’re having a good time.”
“Nit”
“Why, What’s the matter? Weather is fine and –
“Yes, that’s all right – but where are the fish?”
“Say, I remember the time when tarpon were caught opposite my home and there’s nothing like that now. The tarpon have disappeared: you hardly ever hear of one being caught in the Bay. You know why? The answer is not an arbitrary one; it is just this. The wholesale destruction of the mullet and small fish which formerly abounded in the bay is the cause. Do you catch on? The small fish you see were nature’s food for the tarpon. When the mullet and small fish were plentiful and ran in the bay it was feeding ground and like it was then it will be again if you stop the netting.”
“The tarpon has put Fort Meyers on the map as a fishing resort with biggest sportsmen in the country. Lee County has become famous, but it’s being ruined by these nets and the extermination of the fish by a bunch of men for commercial purposes.”
“You can take my word for it that fishing is the attraction and an incentive for more tourists coming to Lee County than any other game or sport now here, or that might be introduced.”
Thomas A. Edison, Fort Meyers Press, April 11, 1916