spawn-taking

Updated: May 5, 2025

"I don't know whether I can come up to the standard, but I'm one of those that want to!" the boy said emphatically, rightly judging that the Commissioner was not the sort of man who liked long speeches. Spawn-taking operations on the Potomac River. Trying to save from extinction one of America's finest-flavored food fishes. "Good! Going to college?" The boy looked at his father.

Francis Rolt-Wheeler - The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries