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ihat is an impossibility, because he is lii\c the Kiiolisli s|)arro\\. 

 here to stay. The fact however remains that our people are 

 |)rejudiced against the carp as a fish and want to get rid of him. 

 The county authorities of Erie county, two months ago, applied 

 for permission to net the carp out of the Niagara river. Of 

 course, anybody who knows anything about that river, knows he 

 could not be netted out of there in a million years, if he was in 

 there at all. But they got the permission and took out carp by 

 the wagon load. The fish were disposed of to Italians and Poles 

 at a low rate ; and they seem to be the only nationalities who can 

 cook the carp fit to eat. We are beginning to go a little slow 

 with these permits to net out carp however, for the reason that 

 i!ie sentiment is veering around somewhat in its favor — that 

 much I am willing to admit; but further than that, it is doiil)t- 

 ful to my mind whether we will ever have a very great carp mai-- 

 ket in the Empire state. 



Secretary : 1 would like to ask if the gentleman knows what 

 tlie market price is or lias l)ecii during tlie ))ast ycai- in Xcw Yorl. 

 city, at wholesale ? 



]\rr. Whish : I do not know. 



Secretary : I read the quotations every week in the Fishing 

 Gazette. During the cold months it varied from 9 to 10 cent,s a 

 pound at wliolesale, and com])ared well in value with other first 

 class fish. 



Mr. Whish ; The complaints we received are from tlir inlaixl 

 counties. 



Mr. E. Tyson White: Many fishermen along the lower part 

 of Long Island and South Bay are making a living From carp, 

 selling them as fast as they catch them. 



Mr. Clark : I do not wish to say very much on the carp qiu's- 

 tion, but the question of carp interfering with anglers and the 

 destruction of bass has been pretty thoroughly exploded by soni(^ 

 member of the Fnited States Fish Commission Scientific corps 

 — I do not know who it was, that made some investigations in 

 Lake St. Clair; and I think if the people will t<ike pains to read 

 what has been said in regard to that, they will find bis conclu- 

 sions were that carp did not interfere with bass or |>erch. I do 

 not think the carp interferes in any manner with the ^^)i):^ of 

 these fish. The only complaint that I bear from up around tbc 



