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Mr. Meehan : We have a saying in Pennsylvania that it is always 

 unsafe for anyone to say that any particular fish is very destructive 

 and ought to be exterminated, because by so doing he is very likely to 

 tread on the tail of his favorite fish. (Laughter.) 



Mr. J. S. P. H. Wilson, Auburn, Me.: 1 come from the state of 

 Maine and we boast the most beautiful waters and fish in this union. 

 1 came down here for information. Now the most important question 

 I want to ask is this, how to keep the carp out of the state of Maine. 

 I am afraid they may walk overland and get into our waters. 



Dr. Takleton H. Bean, Albany. X. Y. : As I understand, this is 

 not a carp controversy, and I will not talk about carp, but I would like 

 to say to Dr. Bartlett that on the question of what the states are doing 

 to protect the breeding grounds of certain fish, X T ew York has within 

 its own forest reserves certain lakes which are absolutely protected 

 against fishing of all kinds, and kept for breeding grounds of brook 

 trout, lake trout, white fish, and other valuable species. There are 

 large lakes in the Adirondacks; one is near the hatchery at Saranac 

 Lake, and although called Little Green Lake, it is a large lake. There 

 is also a larger Green Lake in the same region, but only one of these 

 is reserved by the state as a breeding ground for certain kinds of fish. 

 Then on Long Island there is Great South Bay. which, as you know, 

 is an immense body of water, and it is almost entirely protected from 

 fishing of all kinds except with book and line. Great South Bay is 

 perhaps as fine a body of water for the breeding of weaklish, scup 

 and sea bass, as any piece of water in Xew York. 



Then again there is a law in Xew York which forbids the seining 

 of smelt in trout waters. That protects the smelt because they run up 

 in the trout streams to cast their eggs in very shallow' water. The 

 smelt is so common that anyone can obtain a mess of it. Great South 

 Bay has been so thoroughly restocked by natural processes that the 

 fishing is better now than when 1 first spent my summers there 25 or 

 30 years ago. You will see that the state has various grounds which 

 cannot be encroached upon by anyone except hook and line fishermen 

 without incurring risk of heavy penalties. A great deal of good has 

 been accomplished in this way. The Xew York law might be a good 

 one for Dr. Bartlett. 



Dr. Bartlett: I should like to have it very much. 



Dr. II. B. Ward, Urbana, 111.: I was very much struck by the re- 

 mark that was made by the last speaker, Dr. Bean, in mentioning the 

 maintenance of certain lakes in tin- forest reservation as preserves for 

 the breeding of trout. 



Being a Xew York man myself, I think perhaps I appreciate more 

 than some of those who have always or never lived in Illinois, the 

 peculiar character of this Illinois River. It is really a very remarkable 

 stream. In the course of the valley, the immediate plain of the river, 

 there are large areas of back water, cut-offs, sloughs or bayous, places 

 which connect with the open river and yel are oi an entirely different 



