Management Of Artificial Lakes And Ponds:

In man’s attempt to manipulate populations, the art of fish and game management had its roots. But a new phenomenon has appeared within the present century, and much of it after the first two decades had passed. This has been the changing of the art of management to the science of management. As we have learned more about fish and game, we have found that these organisms often react in an empirical, predictable way, and the old wives’ tales and rules of thumb of just a little while ago have been found to be erroneous unless they happened to be based on what we now know as scientific fact. The knowledge which we have of a field such as fish management be- comes so hidden in the literature, and sometimes so abstruse to the non- specialist, that it must be brought together and interpreted by someone who is conversant with the field. This is what Dr. Bennett has done in his book.