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What do I like about fishing most?
Everything. Everything!

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A bad day of fishing's a lot better
than a good day of working.

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[laughs]

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Even when they're not biting
it's still a good day of fishing.

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[music]

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Catch him? Yes sir.

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And next is eating them.

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Eating them too. We do it all.

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We used to think we were sport fishing

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but we decided we ain't
all together sport fishing,

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 we like to each them too.

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[music]

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- [Narrator] From earliest memory,
man has been a fisherman.

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At first to feed only himself,

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[music]

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then in commerce,

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and eventually for sport.

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[music]

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Through those years,

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fishing styles and techniques have
undergone vast changes,

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but the fascination with catching
a fish has not lessened.

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It continues to summon
a host of emotions—

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anticipation,

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frustration,

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and satisfaction.

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Like life itself,


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the fascination of fishing
lies in its uncertainty.

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And the form it takes does not
matter for the joy of fishing fills a deep

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and enduring place
in the lives of many of us.

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Yet this ancient link
between men and fish 

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is today severely threatened.

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A massive danger flows throughout
the land in many different forms 

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from many different places—

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factories and sewage
treatment plants,

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toxic waste dumps,
streets and parking lots,

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collectors of everything
from Styrofoam to motor oil,

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 yield some of the most toxic runoff.

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Soil washes from farmland
and second home developments

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choking waterways with silt.

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Farm runoff often carries with it a load
of pesticides that can lead directly

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to fish kills, or even worse,

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the long term poisoning of our waterways.

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Although these activities are considered
essential to man's well-being,

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their effects nevertheless
can accumulate—

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strangling and degrading our waters,

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making them uninhabitable
for almost all life.

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Faced with such complex
and elusive challenges,

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the North Carolina Wildlife
Resources Commission

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is charged with providing
fishing opportunities for the public.

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From the tumbling mountain streams
to the dark, slow moving coastal waters,

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the Division of Boating
and Inland Fisheries meets this task

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through a broad system
of fisheries management programs.

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But before a management
program is put in place, 

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there are many questions to be
answered.

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Studies or surveys of aquatic systems
are basic to providing these answers.

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Using a variety of techniques from electro
fishing to krill surveys,

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biologists learn of the growth rates
of fish, incidents of disease,

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reproductive success,
and species composition.

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- [Biologist] 395.

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1.1 kilos.

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 - [Narrator] Probably the
greatest value of the surveys

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is their use as a biological basis
for setting fishing regulations.

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In several instances,
surveys showed that overfishing was

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causing a size imbalance
in largemouth bass populations.

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Anglers were catching
the popular game fish,

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but very few were
worth bragging about.

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How's your
fishing been today?

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 We're catching a ton of small fish,
but we can't seem to catch any any size,

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about the biggest was [?]
about three pounds.

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You guys are the experts.

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Now you're putting a limit
on them, fourteen inches.

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Why is this?

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 - [Biologist] Well, you sort of
answered the question yourself.

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There's two reasons to that.

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We've placed a 

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size limit restriction
on the bass population

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so that the fish will reach
a larger size, a lunker size.

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And then at the same time,
we have in the krill, too undersized fish,

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which you can keep.

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And this lets you
harvest the segment of this population.

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The whole purpose of the krill

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and size limit regulations is
to protect the bass population.

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Well, Joe, let us hear
from you on your fishing success.

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- [Joe] Thank you.
- [Biologist] Good luck.

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- [Narrator] Other surveys revealed
the critically low status

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of striped bass
populations in inland waters.

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Again, data from the surveys was used
to support new regulations that would

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allow the fish more growing time.


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In a larger sense these
surveys are vital to balancing

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the needs of fishery resources
with the demands of the fishing public.

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And always, biological data is
the key element in that balance.

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[distant talking]

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Traditionally farm ponds have
given North Carolinians

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some of their most
enjoyable hours of fishing,

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but a farm pond is not a truly natural
ecosystem and too often the relationship

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between predator and prey
fish gets out of balance.

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There are too many small fish and not
enough large ones to keep them in check.

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So the role of the predator
and the prey is reversed

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 and the young predator
fish becomes the prey.

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In these situations, commission
fisheries biologists provide

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guidance on how to restore balance
to the fish populations in the pond.

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 - [Biologist] One of the things I noticed

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is that you've got bass in here
and they're thin. They've got a slight belly.

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It means that they're
not getting enough food.

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If you want to improve your bass fishery

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you're going to need to
take out a few more bass. 

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By taking out a few more bass

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this will allow the other bass that are

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out there more food and allow
them to grow to a larger size.

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 - [Narrator] Sometimes fishing
can be enhanced 

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through the restoration
of a native species

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that had vanished from its range because
of changes in its natural habitat.

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This was the case of the muskellunge
in western North Carolina.

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Water pollution from mining operations

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led to its disappearance from the French
Broad and other western rivers.

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But in the 1970s, a program was
begun to restock muskies

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in the French Broad,
Nolichucky, and New Rivers.

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The program has proved to be a success


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and the restoration of the
musky to its native waters

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now furnishes anglers an
exciting and very elusive challenge.

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- [Fisherman 1] Got him!

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Just a minute, Jerry.


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- [Fisherman 2] Bring him over here
on this side of the boat.

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[?]

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- [Fisherman 1] How big is he?


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- [Fisherman 2] About 30-32. 

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- [Fisherman 1] Look at the [?]
lateral bar markings on that. 

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Ain't that a pretty fish?

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 - [Narrator] But ever amidst
these successful programs

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is the constant threat of fish kills.

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They are the so-called trade offs

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of industrialized society and they
will never be completely eliminated.

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And always, the task of cleaning up

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falls to

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to Fisheries Division personnel with
assistance from the Enforcement Division.

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The job becomes doubly frustrating because

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it usually means cleaning up someone
else's negligence or indifference.

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But it must be done.

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The grim data from the cleanups is
necessary to establish the cost

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of replacing the fish if and when
the cause of the kill is determined.

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And yet poor water quality is not
always the cause of poor fishing.

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It can be as simple as a lack
of cover in which fish can hide.

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And the solution to the problem
can often be as simple.

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A bundle of discarded Christmas trees tied

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together and weighted with cinder
blocks may be all it takes.

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Placed on a barren lake bottom,

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the bundle sometimes begin attracting
fish within a matter of hours.

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Attractors have been placed in many

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of the state's public waters and over
the years have become a proven strategy

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for boosting fish populations
and improving fishing.

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Fishing success can
also depend on being

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able to get to where the fish are.

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On a number of urban lakes

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access to better fishing has been made

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possible through
the construction of piers.

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In combination with fish attractors,
the piers give a sort of upscale twist

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to the time honored
tradition of bank fishing.

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And yet there is considerably more

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to managing North Carolina's
freshwater fisheries.

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Often it amounts to repairing the damage

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to aquatic habitats caused
by man's activities.

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In the mountains of North Carolina,
the streams begin humbly.

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Slowly, seeping from the rocks and soil,
becoming trickles,

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collecting to overflowing,

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repeated a thousand times

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ever falling.

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And at last,

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swelling into rushing streams and rivers.

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But for all their brawling vitality,

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these waters, and a life they support,
are fragile, easily damaged.

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When the mountain slopes are cleared

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rain and snow wash away the soil

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which eventually chokes
the streams with silt.

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Trout cannot live in such an environment

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and the eggs, smothered by a blanket
of silt, cannot survive.

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Even in an undisturbed state,

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many mountain streams cannot
support large populations of trout. 

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Because of this

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heavy fishing pressure could
ultimately deplete them.

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To assure a continuation of high quality
trout fishing in the state's 4,000 miles

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of trout stream,

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a stocking program was
begun many years ago.

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Currently, four commission hatcheries
annually provide about 340,000 brook,

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rainbow, and brown trout for stocking
in North Carolina waters.

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But for the angler who cherishes
the challenge of catching a wild trout,

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there also are 400 miles
of unstocked trout streams.

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Surveys have shown
that these streams are

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able to sustain naturally
reproducing trout populations.

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Tighter krill and size
limits keep them that way,

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allowing more fish
to grow to a bigger size.

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In the state's larger reservoirs an
intensive management effort also works

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toward maintaining a strong
striped bass fishery.

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A stocking program became necessary

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with the damming of many
of North Carolina's major rivers.

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The ancient spawning runs of the striper
and other fish species were cut off

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by the dams.

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Concrete and steel
not only blocked flowing water,

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it thwarted the natural
rhythms of a species.

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Eggs laid by spawning stripers must have

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flowing water to carry them downstream
to give them time to mature.

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But in the waters now stilled by the dams,
the eggs sink to the bottom and die.

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Natural reproduction
becomes impossible.

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Since the 1950s,
the Division of Inland Fisheries has

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stocked many lakes with stripers.

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In rhythm with the seasons

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the program begins in spring as

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the stripers move upstream on their
annual spawning run again.

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Again the electro fishing
technique is used,

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this time to collect the female
stripers now heavy with eggs.

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The fish, momentarily stunned as

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the current passes through
the water, are quickly retrieved.

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[excited yelling]

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Before the female stripers are
transported to Welden Hatchery,

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they're weighed and injected

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with a hormone that will stimulate
development of their eggs.

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[background chatter]

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At the hatchery
it's a waiting game.

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But when the eggs have matured,
they're stripped from the female

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and fertilized with milt
from a male striper.

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Depending on her size

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a female may carry from 250,000
to five million eggs.

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What's that look like to you?
About a million?

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- [Worker 2] A million,
a million and a half.

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- [Worker 1] We need some male.
- [Worker 3] Ok.

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- [Worker 4] They look good. 
- [Worker 2] Yeah they do.

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[distant chatter]

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- [Narrator] To simulate the
natural river current

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the eggs are placed in jars
with water flowing through them.

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This is a critical element in the spawning
process, for the eggs must be suspended

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in water

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from thirty-six to seventy-two hours if
they are to mature and hatch into fry.

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From Welden, the fry are taken to the
commission hatchery in Fayetteville

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 and held in tanks until
they reach fingerling size.

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Several weeks later the fingerlings,

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now one to two inches long,
are ready for stocking.

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The rest of the story, of course,
is up to the fisherman,

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but without these efforts,

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striped bass fishing,
a sport enjoyed by thousands

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of North Carolina sportsmen,

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would be greatly diminished.

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More than that,

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the recent decline of striper populations
in our rivers and coastal waters

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lends even greater importance to a strong
striped bass management program.

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And yet there has always been a sort

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of grand irony in all these attempts
to manage the state's inland fisheries.

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For although the Division of Boating
and Inland Fisheries was charged

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with maintaining the resource,

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it has had little control over those

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activities that degraded
the state's waters.

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The steady decline of the striper

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population is a prime
example of the dilemma.

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It is a classic environmental mystery
with many more questions than answers.

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Are the doses of heavy metals

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and pesticides found in the tissues
of stripers taking their toll?

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Have the huge dams and reservoirs altered
the flow of the Roanoke River,

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thereby fatally disrupting the fish's
spawning cycle?

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In their search for answers,
biologists collect striper larvae

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from the Roanoke River,
a major striper spawning area.

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The samples disclose more
than spawning success.

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The stomachs of the larvae are empty

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instead of being stuffed with tiny
organisms called zooplankton—

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the primary food of the striper larvae.

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Blue-green algae is the suspected cause.

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Fertilized by the
nutrient-rich wastewaters

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from farms and cities,
algae can undergo explosive growth.

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In turn, this growth depletes the
dissolved oxygen in the water

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and thus interferes with
the production of zooplankton.

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With this critical link
missing from their food chain,

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the half inch long striper
larvae literally starve to death.

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And there are still other
threats, other questions.

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As the young stripers make
their way downriver,

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how many are sucked into the intakes
of heavy users of river water?

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Another link in the mystery may begin
hundreds, perhaps thousands of miles away.

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The heavy breath of the nation's

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industrial heart rises and catches
the prevailing west wind.

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Once aloft, sulfur dioxide
and nitrogen oxides

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may mix with water vapor to form
sulfuric or nitric acid.

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Born eastward, it cloaks
the Appalachian Mountains

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in acid mist, drifts across
the Piedmont toward the coast.

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Along the way, this acid brew falls
into our waterways and becomes a prime

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suspect as a cause
of the stripers decline.

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Its impact is also suspected throughout
the coastal waters of the Atlantic.

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Even the commercial harvest
of stripers make be taking its toll.

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When striped bass are
plentiful in coastal waters,

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commercial harvesting
of them has little impact.

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But from 1976 to 1988,
the commercial striper catch dropped

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from over 676,000 pounds
to 109,000 pounds.

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Some of this can be attributed
to stricter catch limits,

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but with current populations so low,

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continued commercial
netting could be harmful.

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[music]

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Perhaps the most tragic abuse of this

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priceless resource came as pure greed.

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As the commercial striper catch declined,

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demand for the fish could not
be met and its value increased.

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The result was an upsurge in striper
poaching in inland waters such as

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Kerr, Gaston, and Roanoke Rapids Lakes
and the Roanoke River.

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- [Buyer] Whatcha got?

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Man, she's slam full.

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Probably got fifty pounds in there.

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Oh, you've got the touch.

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- [Buyer] I've got
the people lined up.

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- [Poacher] That's ten. That
makes fifty-one pounds.

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- [Buyer] Will that do it?

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Well, all right! Looks like we
got us a growth industry here.

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- [Buyer] Same time tomorrow?

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 - [Fisherman] Yeah.

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- [Buyer] All right.

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The selling of game fish
caught in inland waters is illegal,

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but over a two year period
224,000 pounds

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of striped bass were
illegally sold from these waters.

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The buyers and poachers were caught,
but their greed, if left unchecked,

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would have depleted the striper
populations even further.

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The dilemma of the striped bass is part

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of a destructive cycle that often is the
end product of environmental degradation.

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As its habitat was degraded
its numbers dwindled,

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but under the law of supply and demand
the stripers value increased.

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It became a commodity in the marketplace.

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The striper became the
target of criminal activity

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that reduced its
numbers even further.

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Although such problems still exist,
there now is an also greater recognition

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of the need to carefully monitor
the health of our natural resources.

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It is a complex and wide ranging task

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and demands the
cooperation of many agencies.

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Within this framework,

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the Division of Boating
and Inland Fisheries

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fisheries plays a major role in easing the
abuses that plague the state's waterways.

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It comes with the authority to assess

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and comment on the
environmental impact

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that numerous activities
have on our in land waters

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inland waters—channelization,
land clearing, agricultural runoff,

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industrial wastes, and
the damming of rivers.

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In the broad scope
of all its activities,

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environmental assessment is probably
the most important and far reaching

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function of the division.

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Without its experience, its vigilance,

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there is a strong
probability of an even

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greater degradation
of our fisheries.

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In all of this there's a paradox,

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a confusion of values where
men, water, and fish touch.

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The broad fabric
of this activity we call fishing

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is so deeply woven with our affections
that to be without it is unthinkable.

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But we continue to
damage that which we love,

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at times sow the seeds
of its destruction.

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Within this tangle of contradictions,


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the North Carolina Wildlife
Resources Commission

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 strives to protect, manage, and
improve the state's fisheries.

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Yet its efforts often add
up to merely keeping even.

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The unexplained
decline of the striped bass,

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acid rain, toxic runoff,
all are symptoms of competing

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priorities over which it
has little control.

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Against the backdrop
of man's relentless

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drive to manipulate
the world around him,

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the task seems overwhelming

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for it demands not just knowledge,
but courage and wisdom.

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Still, the effort is firmly rooted

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in an indisputable truth that if we
nurture and protect that which we love,

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we ultimately sustain ourselves.

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And even more,

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the responsibility to do so
rests with all of us.

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The philosopher
Jose Ortega y Gasset

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put it best when he said,
"I am myself and what is around me.

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If I do not save it, it shall not save me."

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It's a chance to get away from all

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the pressures of work and come out,
just sit and relax in the lake.

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Enjoy the scenery. Just get off
by yourself in the quietness of a lake.

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[music]

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If you catch fish, that's a bonus.

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[music]

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- [Person 1] Had a good
day of fishing today.

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- [Person 2] Yeah?
It was a good day.

[00:30:09.957] 
- [Person 1] Kind of interesting,
the smallmouth

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 were hitting on the surface today.

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[voices fade out]

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