Fish Habitat Quotes

Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.

No one can pretend to say that a fish is ever killed by heat, for many kinds of fish, in the middle of summer, and in the burning heat of the sun, do either play, as it were, on the surface of the water, or hide themselves under the leaves, weeds, or other substances at the bottom.

This, Mr. Chairman, is a proposition to establish there [in Tupelo, MS] a [Federal] fish hatchery. We have the ideal place for a fish hatchery. Why, sir, fish will travel over land for miles to get into the water we have at Tupelo. Thousands and millions of unborn fish are clamoring to this Congress this day for an opportunity to be hatched at the Tupelo hatchery.

If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.

The length of time during which you must play your fish depends on his choice, not on yours.

The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em.

If the water is too clear, there is nothing for the fish to eat.

Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries.

This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.

The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.

The seeds of the life of fishes are everywhere disseminated, whether the winds waft them, or the waters float them, or the deep earth holds them; wherever a pond is dug, straightway it is stocked with this vivacious race. They have a lease of nature, and it is not yet out.

I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now.