Lexington, June 27—North Carolina’s streams should be a source of great wealth if the fish therein are properly protected,” said Judge T.D. Murphy of Asheville, in passing on the case of Walter Southern of High Point, who plead guilty to dynamiting fish in Abbott’s Creek near Lexington recently.
“The State is greatly blessed with sounds and inland waterways,” Judge Murphy went on, “and if the fish are given the proper care, they will be not only a source of food and sport for the citizens of the State, but will attract tens of thousands of tourists who will bring wealth with them.”
“Dynamiting a poor, helpless fish is one of the most cowardly things I can conceive of,” said the judge. “A fish should at least be given a chance.
From the front page of the Danbury Reporter, Wednesday, July 1, 1925
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