. The Alaska salmon and their practical propagation. Salmon fisheries. provided for all of this loss, and she has fixed, immutable and iron laws. For, to start with, she has never given the power to anyone species to destroy without placing a limit to that destruction. (Frankly I don't believe that there are any more seagulls today than there were twenty years ago.) Whea any living creatures become too plentiful, nature has her own way to destroy and an- nihilate them. Just leave it to her. She will establish that balance or equilibrium neces- sary. Her iron laws hold, from the minutest form o
. The Alaska salmon and their practical propagation. Salmon fisheries. provided for all of this loss, and she has fixed, immutable and iron laws. For, to start with, she has never given the power to anyone species to destroy without placing a limit to that destruction. (Frankly I don't believe that there are any more seagulls today than there were twenty years ago.) Whea any living creatures become too plentiful, nature has her own way to destroy and an- nihilate them. Just leave it to her. She will establish that balance or equilibrium neces- sary. Her iron laws hold, from the minutest form of life to man, himself. Now. just a word about the tiout's de- vouring all the salmon eggs. Possibly it has INLAND PASSAGE SCENE. •CANNERY AT BIG PORT \\Al/rb:R. BARANOFF ISLAND r "never occurred to one person in a hundred that the young salmon, during his stay in fresh water, before going to his future home in the seas, eat the eggs and young of the trout during their spawning season. For nature intended this to be so, in order that the trout may not get too plen- tiful. On the other hand she has given to one female salmon three thousand eggs. Why? So that a few may reach maturity, and the balance feed her other creatures. Comes now, Mr. Selfishman, and upsets. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Alaska. Territorial Fish Commission; Sprague, A. J. [from old catalog]. [Juneau] Alaska daily empire print
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