The state is spending a large sum of money, though not as much as it should, to build fish hatcheries and improve the fishing in the streams of the state. So far as Jackson county is concerned, it is a waste of money until the practice of dynamiting the streams is stopped. At the rate we are going, the streams will be depopulated in a few years despite the efforts that are being made to restock them.
There should be a reward offered, sufficient in size to get results, for information to convict any person of exploding dynamite in any stream in the county.
From the editorial page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925; Dan Tompkins, editor.
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