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A NGLING in the slow-running rivers of England affords recreation for an ever-increasing number of artisans and other responsible citizens of our large industrial centres. Inexpensive opportunities of health-giving open-air amusements in the limited time they have available are becoming fewer as the population increases and greater distances have to be traversed before arriving beyond the outskirts of the cities. Since it is upon the health and contentment of the city and industrial workers that the prosperity of the country has come to rest, it has become a duty of the nation to conserve the facilities for this tranquil and pleasant pastime quite as much as to conserve the more valuable salmon and trout fisheries, all of which suffer from the effects of pollution by industrial and other effluents more and more as time goes on.
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River Pollution and Fisheries. Nature 119, 1–3 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119001a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119001a0