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repay the labor bestowed ; the net is sometimes seriously damaged, and the 

 trout are shy and run into deep water; but the so-called suckers are very 

 numerous, and meet with a ready sale. 



The foregoing observations, as already stated, are the result of notes 

 taken in Utah in July, 1872, by myself and assistant, Mr. Henshaw, though 

 in some instances valuable aid and information were obtained from Mr. 

 Peter Madsen, an intelligent Danish fisherman of Utah Lake, who kindly 

 placed at our disposal data obtained during many years' experience acquired 

 in this locality. 



In conclusion, it may be stated that the Utah Lake trout is of vast 

 economic importance to the settlers of the Great Salt Lake Valley, supply- 

 ing as it does a comparatively cheap and most excellent article of sustenance, 

 and one to the preservation of which special attention should be speedily 

 given, since, if means are not shortly taken to prevent the destructive 

 methods of fishing now employed, the species must become extinct after a 

 few years. A number of fishermen, having no fear of the law, which is 

 virtually a dead letter, are in the habit of visiting Utah Lake from Salt 

 Lake City and other localities, and make use of nets of very small mesh 

 for the express purpose of taking in small fish, which readily sell for ten 

 cents per pound in the Salt Lake market. As already mentioned, this reck- 

 less and destructive mode of fishing is in no wise tolerated by the people 

 of Panquitch. nor should it be by the residents of Provo City, near Utah 

 Lake. Mr. Madsen, who lives on the lake, and who has been engaged in 

 fishing for the past eighteen years, complains bitterly of these interlopers 

 and law breakers, as he finds his profits are gradually decreasing with the 

 number of fish from year to year. He mentions that, in 1864, such was 

 the abundance of this fish, that in one haul of the seine, discarding all 

 other kinds, he secured between thirty -five and thirty-seven hundred weight 

 of trout, while at the present time five hundred pounds is considered an 

 enormous haul. 



