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l)ii,' laki' I should not licsitate to stock it with carp, and I shouhl 

 ox])eet it to pay Ijofore verv long. 



I could go on talking about carp indefinitely. I do not know 

 how much they roil the waters and how much they interfere with 

 the feeding of wild ducks, hut ])erliaps some of the other mem- 

 bers do. 



Mr. Clark : Mr. 'J'ownsend said that he did not think that 

 the fishermen were yet catching many carp in Lake Erie, but 

 last year in Maumee Bay, according to reports, carp were being 

 caught by the ton, and I understand from Mr. J. X. Dewey that 

 they are establishing there a system of keeping the carj) when 

 the market is low and putting them on the Xew York and Phila- 

 delphia markets when prices are high, also that they are making 

 ponds along ]\Iaumee Bay and they catch the carp and hold them 

 in the ponds until they wish to send them to market. 



Mr. Townsend: It should be 3,000.000 pounds for Lake 

 Erie — the figures were put too low. 



Mr. Clark: I understand they do not catch so very many 

 carp down in the lake along the islands, but the carp are there. 

 In Detroit river during the last two years but few carp were 

 caught, l)ut it is possible that the carp will remain in great num- 

 bers in Lake Erie and will stay in such places as Maumee and 

 Sandusky bays. 



Dr. Parker: How is it u]) about the Flats? 



j\Ir. Clark: They have some. There is some kicking about 

 the carp. 



The President: I can tell you al)0ut the Flats. I go u]) on 

 the l)oat to the Flats twice a week, and every time I come down 

 on the boat I get a damning from some bass fisher 

 that claims the carj) art' destroying the l)ass fishing. 

 But notwithstanding tlieir clahus the bass fishing on 

 St. Clair Flats has been heltiT during the last three 

 years than at any time during Hftet'U years ])revious, 

 and we havi' not planted any bass either. ! can not account for 

 it in any other way e.\ce])t that the environments of the car]) and 

 black l)ass are al)solutely different. Black bass likes a clean, 

 ]»\ire, sandy bottom, and the car]) lives on a nnuldy. weedy bot- 

 tom. 1 helieve that the car]) is a good thing in many waters 

 where lilaek hass thrivt". 1 believe that the bass lishing at the 



