78 Tz^'ciity-iiiiit/i Annual Meeting 



send our cans and haul our cars free, and they give us mileage 

 for a car, 40,000 to 50,000 miles a year; but in order to comply 

 wath the law, we are obliged to pay transportation for our men. 

 The board, however, immediately made an estimate of how much 

 that would cost, and the legislature immediately appropriated 

 funds for transportation. W'e have found that by keeping the 

 two systems separate, under two dififerent departments, that 

 propagation meets with universal favor; whereas, if we blended 

 the two systems into one and the Commissioners of Fisheries 

 were at the head of game protection, we would have a fight on 

 that would take our whole time. 



The President: And you wouldn't get any appropriation.'' 

 Mr. llryant: And we wouldn't get any appropriation. Now, 

 it is simply a question of how much we want, and there never is 

 a whimper or any trou'jle. We always give them a fair estimate 

 and indicate what we can do. We proceed economically. The 

 Fish Commission does not get much time; we meet four times a 

 year and go around and visit our hatcheries. Mr. Xevin attends 

 to all administrative matters and carries out our resolves. There 

 has been a great deal of talk, and we thought at one time that 

 we ought to take care of the whole business, but experience 

 taught us that all the fight comes on the nets, the size of the 

 nets and what water shall be fished in, and what kind of laws. Of 

 course mucli of our good work is thwarted by imperfect legisla- 

 tion, but it is better to have propagation going on undisturbed 

 than it is to blend the two together and have both tipped over. 

 The result is that we are, in that State, making headway all the 

 time in securing better protection. Thie sentiment is growing 

 but it takes so long to focus the belief of public sentiment 

 against the sentiment of localities that it is a rough and stormy 

 road to get any salutary legislation in that way. 



A word in respect to carp. We are so well supplied with 

 other fish in our state that the carp is looked upon as a visitation 

 or a calamity. I think we are coming to perceive after all that 

 the carp isn't so detrimental a fish. Within the last five years 

 there has been a strong prejudice against the fish. Thev say 



