54 Thirty-iSecond Annual Meeting 



Great Lakes, is from the duck hunters. They claim that the 

 earj) are destroying the rice roots, and possibly you may find 

 rliat. difficulty. 



Secretary : It is so claimed. 



Mr. Clark: I think the carp has come to stay in the Great 

 Lakes as a commercial fish, and I do not think they are hurting 

 the other fishes at all. We know in Michigan they are catching 

 them in Monroe and Maumee Bay, by the tons, and in the month 

 of June, while they were catching them, the Fishing Gazette 

 quoted them at 4 and 5 cents a pound wholesale. 



Mr. J. L. Leary, San Marcos, Texas: As to his destroying 

 the eggs or young fish, it is not a fact. My experience is that I 

 could not raise the crappy in clear water, and I adopted the plan 

 of putting so many carp in crappy ponds, and I raised some 

 crappy and no carp, showing that the young carp are all de- 

 stroyed by the crappy. The smallest sun fish can chase him 

 away, for the carp is a big coward; the carp is a rai)id grower 

 and a good food fish. I have young mirror carp hatched last 

 March, a year ago, that today weigh 4 pounds. I have nothing 

 but mirror carp. I have kept up with the quoted prices; I 

 never pick up a paper that quotes the fish price in any market, 

 but what I look at carp and always find him selling at a good 

 fair price; and in winter time he sells for possibly twice as much 

 as during the spring. I am a Xorth Carolina fisherman, and in 

 fishing I caught carp in the sounds, and early in March 1 have 

 realized as much as 20 cents a pound for them in the New York 

 market — of course we did not catch many. T do not say they 

 are as good as Spanish mackerel, l)ut they are good, neverthe- 

 less. 



Mr. W. De C. Eavenel: How large ponds did you raise 

 crappy in? 



Mr. Leary : A quarter of an acre. I have three jjonds at 

 San Marcos, Texas, of three-quarters of an acre each. Tlie other 

 fish destroy carp, but the carp do not destroy the other fisii. 

 Take the San Marcos river for instance: T know lots of our 

 young carp escape during the floods, and several of llie old carp, 

 my brood fish, were caught with dough balls in the river, this 

 spring. T believe he is a good and valuable fish and growing to 

 be more ])()])ular all llic lime. He is certainly an economical fei- 



